State Ex Rel. Heuring v. Allen

This case, recently reassigned to the writer, is a proceeding in certiorari seeking to quash the opinion of the Springfield Court of Appeals in Heuring v. Central States Life Ins. Co.,87 S.W.2d 661. Relator, as plaintiff herein, sued for $1000 alleged to be due him as beneficiary in an insurance policy issued by defendant on the life of his minor daughter, who died October 20, 1933. Defendant had judgment in the trial court and, upon plaintiff's appeal, this judgment was affirmed.

Relator contends that the opinion of the Court of Appeals is in conflict with the following decisions of this…