American General Life Insurance v. Wilkes

PER CURIAM: *

Queen Ester Wilkes Hinkle appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Evelyn Jackson Wilkes, recognizing her as the sole beneficiary of two American General Life Insurance Company (“AG Life”) life insurance policies of the late John Henry Wilkes. We affirm.

I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

This appeal involves a dispute over decedent John Wilkes’s life insurance proceeds between his wife, Evelyn Wilkes, and his daughter from a former marriage, Queen Ester Wilkes Hinkle (“Hinkle”). John Wilkes purchased two life insurance policies, insuring his life, from AG Life. The…