CLEAVER v. WESTERN NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 2014 CA 0972.

180 So.3d 406 (2015)

Jojuyounghi CLEAVER, as Surving Spouse & as Tutrix of her Minor Child, Kayode Ji Jaga, v. WESTERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (Successor Company to American General Annuity Insurance Company).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

July 28, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Janice Villarrubia , Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Jojuyounghi Cleaver, as natural tutrix for the minor child, Kayode Ji Jaga.

Emily E. Eagan , New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Western National Life Insurance Company (Successor Company to American General Annuity Insurance Company).

B. Troy Villa , James R. Raines , Joseph J. Cefalu, III , Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Shona Satomi Pratt and Hiroji Pratt.

Mark R. Callender , Baton Rouge, LA, for Intervenor/Appellant, Laila Minja, mother and natural tutrix for the minor child, Tkumsah Geronimo Jaga.

Before WHIPPLE, C.J., PETTIGREW, McCLENDON, HIGGINBOTHAM, and HOLDRIDGE, JJ.


This is an appeal filed on behalf of two minor children from a judgment of the trial court sustaining the defendants' exception of no cause of action and dismissing the children's claims asserting an interest in an annuity policy owned by their deceased father. For the following reasons, we reverse the judgment insofar as it sustained...

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