Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Co. of America v. Lewis

STEINFELD, Justice.

Appellees Edwin and Ida Lewis, the parents of Ann Horton Lewis, had purchased from appellant insurance policies insuring Ann’s life and naming themselves as beneficiaries. Several years later they sued the insurer alleging that Ann had disappeared and had been absent from this state for more than seven years. They asked the court to declare that Ann was dead by presumption of law. KRS 422.130. The court so declared in a judgment entered October 19, 1970; whereupon death benefits in the amount of $14,436.79 were paid to appellees. Approximately eight months later the…