AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. HAYES

No. 15269.

324 F.2d 759 (1963)

AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, Mary Presley Hayes and Mary Van Worsley Droke, Defendants-Appellants, v. Betty J. HAYES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Warner, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., for appellants, Dearborn, Berry & Warner, Nashville, Tenn., on the brief.

Mac E. Robinson, Nashville, Tenn., for appellee, Patten & Brown, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief.

Before MILLER and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and PECK, District Judge.


SHACKELFORD MILLER, Jr., Circuit Judge.

On December 27, 1941, the Aetna Life Insurance Company issued a $5,000.00 policy of life insurance to Carlos L. Hayes, a lawyer and resident of Arkansas. The named beneficiaries were the insured's mother, Mary Presley Hayes, and the insured's fiancee at that time.

On June 20, 1950, the insured executed, upon a form provided by the company, a request for change of beneficiary, which continued his mother as one of the...

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