Vaughn v. Baker

CULLEN, Commissioner.

R. V. Grigg had two life insurance policies with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in the total amount of $5,128. Shortly before his unanticipated death in an automobile accident he took steps to change the beneficiary from the appellant Elsie Vaughn, his sister-in-law, to the appellee Gillis Baker, a niece. He was killed before a change formally was effected. In this lawsuit between appellant and appellee, in which Metropolitan did not contest its liability but paid the proceeds into court, the issue was whether the steps taken by Grigg to change the beneficiary…