Mang v. Travelers Insurance Company

CADENA, Justice.

Betsy Ann Meuth Mang, individually and as guardian of her minor children, filed this suit to recover from defendant, The Travelers Insurance Company, $15,-000.00, the face amount of a life insurance policy issued by Travelers on the life of Alvis Ray Meuth who, at the time of his death, was the husband of Betsy Meuth Mang, the beneficiary under the policy. Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of the defendant insurance company.

Alvis Ray Meuth was killed in an airplane crash on March 10, 1963. It is undisputed that at the time of his death he was…