Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Co. of America v. Lewis

PALMORE, Justice.

This is a second appeal in the same proceeding. In Alexander Hamilton Life Insurance Company v. Lewis, Ky., 500 S.W.2d 420 (1973), a final order of the trial court denying the insurance company’s CR 60.02 motion to vacate a 1970 judgment awarding the Lewises $14,436.79 was reversed and the cause was remanded for further proceedings.

The background is that after their daughter had disappeared and her whereabouts had been unknown for over seven years the Lewises brought suit against the insurance company for the face amount of two insurance policies on her life, relying on KRS…