Gayden v. Kirk

The plaintiff, Maysie Jewel Gayden, brought this suit in the county court against the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, California, to recover the proceeds of an insurance policy on the life of Cyrus Walter Kirk, who died August 2, 1946, wherein she had been named as secondary beneficiary to receive the proceeds of such policy in the event the first beneficiary named therein, Mrs. Ida Kirk, wife of the insured, should not be living at the death of the insured. Mrs. Ida Kirk died on November 10, 1943, and the plaintiff had been named as secondary beneficiary during the…