Long v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

CADENA, Justice.

Plaintiff, Lola B. Long, surviving widow of Hansel Andy Long, deceased employee of defendant, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, appeals from rendition of judgment non obstante veredicto denying her recovery of death benefits under defendant’s “Plan for Employees’ Pensions, Disability Benefits and Death Benefits,” herein designated as the “plan.”

Among other things, the plan calls for the payment of death benefits “to the wife of the deceased employee, if living with him at the time of his death.” It is administered by an “Employees’ Benefit Committee,” which we shall…