MABBITT v. WILKERSON

No. 4-9720.

247 S.W.2d 201 (1952)

MABBITT v. WILKERSON.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 24, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll W. Johnston, Morrilton, Wright, Harrison, Lindsey & Upton, Little Rock, for appellant.

Talley & Owen, Richard L. Pratt and Wayne W. Owen, Little Rock, for appellee.


WARD, Justice.

Involved in this appeal is the question whether the provisions of a property settlement in a divorce decree are effective to eliminate the wife as the dsignated beneficiary in an insurance policy on the life of the husband.

Sometime prior to 1935 Harold W. Mabbitt and appellee were married and thereafter Mr. Mabbitt took out insurance policy No. 9,504,803 with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. On July 8, 1943 they were...

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