STEWART v. MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO.

No. 8539.

522 S.W.2d 257 (1975)

Howard R. STEWART and Taresa Stewart, Appellants, v. MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Baker, Inc., Edward R. Smith, Lubbock, for appellants.

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Cecil C. Kuhne, Lubbock, for appellee.


REYNOLDS, Justice.

Confronted with oppugnant motions for summary judgment asserting, respectively, the legal right of the insured under and the owner of a life insurance policy to compel the insurance company to change and the legal right of the insurance company to decline to change, the beneficiary designation in the form proposed by the insured and owner, the trial court summarily determined that the insurance company was not required to accept the designation...

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