Beatty v. Strickland

Buford, J.,

— Dr. H. M. Strickland was a practicing physician in Live Oak, Florida. His wife was Ruby Strickland, appellee.

In 1928 he employed Myrtle Beatty to work in his office as a helper. Sometime in April, 1931, Dr. Strickland procured a life insurance policy in the sum of $5,000.00 issued by Franklin Life Insurance Company. In that policy Ruby Strickland was named as beneficiary, but the policy carried with it the unrestricted right to change the beneficiary reserved to the insured.

In January of 1932 Dr. Strickland wrote a letter to Franklin Life Insurance Company requesting that the…