California-Western States Life Insurance v. Jarman

Clyde H. Jarman and Dawn Jarman intermarried July 14, 1944. One child, James Wesley Jarman, was born of that union. June 18, 1946, an interlocutory order of divorce from Clyde H. Jarman was entered in favor of Dawn Jarman, to whom the husband was required to pay forty dollars a month alimony and fifty dollars a month for the support of their minor child.

September 28, 1946, California-Western States Life Insurance Company issued to Clyde H. Jarman a policy of insurance on his life in the amount of three thousand dollars, in which policy Jarman’s mother was the named bene ficiary. The husband…