LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA v. SHIFFLET

No. 22549.

359 F.2d 501 (1966)

The LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF VIRGINIA, Appellant, v. Leroy J. SHIFFLET, as Executor de bonis non of the Estate of Florence I. Shifflet, Deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 21, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. E. Hendricks, Hendricks & Hendricks, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Wm. L. Gray, III, James E. Tribble, Blackwell, Walker & Gray, Samuel J. Powers, Jr., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before PHILLIPS, RIVES, and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

In the district court, on a jury verdict, a Florida executor de bonis non of the estate of a beneficiary in a life insurance policy recovered judgment against the insurer on a policy issued to the husband of the deceased. The insurer appeals, and we affirm.

The decision turns upon the correct construction and application of Florida insurance statutes as changed in 1959, a function more properly...

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