CUNDIFF v. CAIN

No. 94-CT-01240-SCT.

707 So.2d 187 (1998)

J. Stuart CUNDIFF and American Republic Life Insurance Company v. Norma Tallant CAIN, Administratrix of the Estate of Scotty S. Tallant, deceased.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 15, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hand Dunbar, Dunbar Williams, Oxford, Louis H. Watson, Jr., Jackson, T.H. Freeland, IV, Freeland & Freeland, Oxford, for Appellants.

Clifton R. Easley, Jr., Easley & Cooper, Bruce, for Appellee.

En Banc.


McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. This matter comes before the Court on a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Norma Tallant Cain in an action originally brought to determine the rightful beneficiary of a life insurance policy with American Republic Life Insurance Company taken out on the late Scotty Tallant by his former father-in-law, J. Stuart Cundiff, without his knowledge or authorization. Reversing and rendering the decision of the Lafayette County...

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