Illinois Bankers Life Ass'n v. Collins

The Illinois Bankers Life Association on June 21, 1921, issued a policy of insurance in which it agreed to pay to Thomas C. Collins, husband of Maggie E. Collins, as beneficiary, the sum of $1000 upon her death. On February 22, 1927, Mrs. Collins, the insured, was murdered by the husband, Thomas C. Collins, the beneficiary, who shortly thereafter killed himself. They both died intestate and left no children or descendants of children. On July 1, 1927, A. C. Helms, Gus Helms, Mary Watson, Wayne Helms and Lorraine Helms, as collateral heirs-at-law and next of kin of Mrs. Collins, filed suit…