ALEXANDER HAMILTON LIFE INS. CO. OF AMERICA v. LEWIS


500 S.W.2d 420 (1973)

ALEXANDER HAMILTON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellant, v. Edwin H. LEWIS et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence L. Pedley, William T. Warner, Wood, Pedley, Stansbury, Rice & Warner, Louisville, for appellant.

H. Douglas Rouse, Carrollton, for appellees.


STEINFELD, Justice.

Appellees Edwin and Ida Lewis, the parents of Ann Horton Lewis, had purchased from appellant insurance policies insuring Ann's life and naming themselves as beneficiaries. Several years later they sued the insurer alleging that Ann had disappeared and had been absent from this state for more than seven years. They asked the court to declare that Ann was dead by presumption of law. KRS 422.130. The court so declared in a judgment entered October...

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