Reeves v. Reeves

Gunter, Justice.

This appeal and cross appeal result from a contest between claimants to the proceeds of policies of life insurance. By agreement the insuring companies paid the proceeds of the policies into the registry of the court, and the issues between the contesting parties were submitted to the trial judge for determination on stipulated facts. Sixty thousand dollars was paid by the insuring companies into the registry of the court. The trial judge’s final judgment awarded $46,000 to the two minor children of the deceased by his first wife, and it awarded $14,000 to the deceased’s…