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CRAWFORD v. COLEMAN

No. 2-85-071-CV.

701 S.W.2d 79 (1985)

Phynies and Flora CRAWFORD, Appellants, v. Martha Shoaf COLEMAN, As Next Friend of Cornell Warren Shoaf, A Minor, Appellee. Cornelius SHOAF, Appellant, v. Phynies and Flora CRAWFORD and Martha Shoaf Coleman, As Next Friend of Cornell Warren Shoaf, a Minor, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

December 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Menaker & Huffman and Mark Huffman, Dallas, for appellants-appellees Phynies and Flora Crawford.

S.C. Cocanower & Assoc., P.C., and S.C. Cocanower, Fort Worth, for appellant Cornelius Shoaf.

Smith, Abney & Woolf and Gerald A. Woolf, Houston, for appellee Martha Shoaf Coleman, As Next Friend of Cornell Warren Shoaf.

Before FENDER, C.J., and ASHWORTH and HILL, JJ.

OPINION

ASHWORTH, Justice.

Cornelius Shoaf appeals a judgment denying him insurance proceeds because a jury found he willfully caused the death of his wife, the insured. The wife's parents appeal that portion of the judgment which awarded some insurance proceeds to a stepson of the wife.

Judgment affirmed.

We will first address the appeal presented by Cornelius Shoaf. Cornelius was an employee of the State of Texas; his wife, Sandra, was...

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