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COOK v. COOK

521 S.W.2d 808 (1975)

Virginia L. COOK, as next friend and guardian of her son, James Perry Cook, a minor, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Gayle Franklin COOK et al., Petitioners-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 10, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barret Ashley, Ralph I. Lawson, Ashley, Ashley & Lawson, Dyersburg, for Virginia L. Cook.

James M. Glasgow, Elam, Glasgow, Tanner & Acree, Union City, for Gayle Franklin Cook.

Robert Walker, Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams & Kirsch, Memphis, for Lincoln American Life Ins. Co. and Larry Page.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

Essentially this is a suit in equity seeking to impress a trust upon the proceeds of a policy of life insurance.

I.

Virginia L. Taylor and James Milton Cook were married in 1956. Mrs. Cook had two children by a prior marriage; Mr. Cook had none. One child, James Perry Cook, was born of this marriage, and at the time of the institution of the suit, he was nine years of age.

In 1967 James Milton Cook applied...

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