Cook v. Cook

WADE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an adverse judgment on an action brought by Genevieve Cook, the appellant herein, to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy in which Jean L. Cook, the respondent herein, was named the beneficiary.

In 1931, Dewey L. Cook obtained a $2500 life insurance policy containing a double indemnity clause in the event of death by accident from the New York Life Insurance Company, in which his mother, Jean L. Cook, was named as beneficiary. In January, 1942, Dewey L. Cook married Genevieve Cook but did not have the beneficiary in his life insurance policy…