Duty v. Ignasiak

SAM ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellants bring this appeal from a judgment awarding the proceeds of their son’s life insurance policy to his fiancee, appellee. At issue is whether the evidence supports the trial court’s finding that Mickie Dee Duty, deceased, properly designated appel-lee as beneficiary of the insurance policy. We affirm.

On January 1,1980, Mickie Dee Duty, the insured, shot himself, 1 leaving a handwritten note which said, in part, “Vicki, you are my beneficiary and will bury me. And someone make sure she gets my money out of my checking account and keeps the money from my…