Wade v. Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Co.

Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment on findings that an insurance policy under which she claimed to be a beneficiary was not binding upon the defendant Country Mutual Life at the time of the death of the intended insured. We affirm.

Stanley E. Wade (Wade) was an agent for Country Mutual Life during the time at issue here. On Friday, February 2, 1979, he filled out an application for life insurance in the amount of $25,000 for his mother-in-law, Lola F. Cook, who signed the application in his office. Wade and plaintiff, then his spouse, were named as primary beneficiaries, with…