Stavros v. Western & Southern Life Insurance Co.

MILLIKEN, Justice.

This appeal involves a family squabble over the $4,000 proceeds of an insurance policy on the life of Robert Nunley, which had been promptly paid by the appellee, Western & Southern Life Insurance Company (hereinafter referred to as the Company), to the designated beneficiary, the appellee Bonnie Potter, sister and guardian of Robert, who had been a minor until his eighteenth birthday a few months before his accidental death.

The action began as a declaratory judgment proceeding brought by the appellant, administrator of Robert’s estate, against the Company and Bonnie but…