JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. HIGHLEY

No. 40805.

445 P.2d 241 (1968)

The JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Jane L. HIGHLEY, and Mont F. Highley, III, and Francis B. Highley, minors, who sue by and through Jane L. Highley, their mother, as next friend, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected September 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben L. Burdick, Andrew M. Coats, Crowe, Boxley, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford & Johnson, Oklahoma City, for plaintiff in error.

Berry & Berry and Charles N. Berry, Jr., Oklahoma City, for defendants in error.


LAVENDER, Justice:

This appeal is concerned with a money judgment in favor of the widow and two minor children of Mont F. Highley, Jr., as the beneficiaries named in two policies of insurance on his life issued by the defendant and in full force at the time of the insured's death, on claims against the insurer under the "Additional Benefit" (or "double indemnity") provisions of the...

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