Honeyman v. Heins

Claimant, as remainderman following a life estate, asserted damages in the amount of $5000.00 for waste against the estate of the predecessor life tenant, or in the alternative, for the proceeds of a fire insurance policy. The court denied the claim and claimant appeals.

The life tenant died April 1, 1969, and the claim alleges that during the life tenancy a fire occurred in 1963 in the farm residence causing substantial damage, that the life tenant collected $2000.00 as fire insurance which would have been more than adequate to restore the residence to its original condition, but that the…