Legal Opinion
Succession of Tilley
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 2, 1999No. 99-64PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
| ¶ WOODARD, Judge.
This is a dispute over the entitlement to the proceeds of an annuity contract, which the decedent willed to Mrs. Linna Faye Biles Berryhill, but which his employer’s workers’ compensation carrier, Reliance, paid, instead, to Mr. Tilley’s former spouse, Martha Robbins Tilley, now, Mrs. Martha Robbins Valentine. Mrs. Berryhill sued, and the trial court found in her favor. Mrs. Valentine and Reliance appeal. We affirm.
FACTS
On January 6, 1983, Mr. Thomas Alton Tilley sustained a work-related injury while in the course and scope of his employment with Bowman’s Grading (Bowman).…
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