Releford v. Reserve Life Insurance Company

The respondent, suing as next friend for her minor children, James Fay Releford and Mary Helen Releford, recovered a judgment against respondent for the sum of $760.00, that sum representing a $500.00 benefit under a provision in respondent’s insurance policy insuring Floyd Releford, petitioner’s husband, against loss of life “resulting from accidental bodily injury,” plus statutory penalty and attorney’s fees. Floyd Releford was killed by petitioner, who was not named as a beneficiary in the policy, under circumstances detailed in an unpublished opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals.

Although…