PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. SUTTON

No. 31194.

368 S.W.2d 522 (1963)

The PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. Joy R. SUTTON, Administrator of the Estate of Velma Webster, Defendant-Respondent, and Robert V. Babb, Administrator of the Estate of Wayne R. Webster, Defendant-Appellant.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

May 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lashly, Lashly & Miller, Paul R. Moody, St. Louis, for plaintiff.

Flynn, Challis & Sumner, Thomas W. Challis, Jr., St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

Harry Gershenson, St. Louis, for defendant-respondent.


DOERNER, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment and decree rendered in an interpleader action in which the individual Administrators of a husband and wife, both of whom died as the result of a common disaster, each claimed the proceeds of a life insurance policy in which the husband was the insured and the wife was named the beneficiary. The Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis held that the wife had survived her...

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