Travelers Insurance Company v. Lewis

Appeal from a summary judgment in favor of three children as beneficiaries under a group life insurance policy in which one Lavender was the insured and his then wife, Helen Smith Lavender, was named as beneficiary. In my opinion, the case should be reversed.

Lavender married Helen Smith Lavender in 1941, who divorced him on June 13, 1960, obtaining custody of the three children mentioned above who then were Shana, 17, Dean, 14, and Joann, 5. The findings of fact in the decree recited the existence of the policy and said it “should be kept in force and effect by the defendant and the plaintiff…