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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

PROVIDENT LIFE & ACCIDENT
INSURANCE COMPANY, a Tennessee
corporation,
Plaintiff,

v.

CARL B. LITTLE,
Defendant-Appellant,
                                                               No. 00-1451
v.

PAMELA J. JACOBS, as Guardian of
Carl B. Little, III,
Defendant-Appellee,

and

CARL B. LITTLE, III,
Defendant.

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston.
Charles H. Haden II, Chief District Judge.
(CA-99-549-2)

Submitted: October 31, 2000

Decided: November 22, 2000

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WILLIAMS and
MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.

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Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

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COUNSEL

Elliot G. Hicks, Nicholas P. Mooney, II, ALLEN, GUTHRIE &
McHUGH, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant. Webster J.
Arceneaux, III, LEWIS, FRIEDBERG, GLASSER, CASEY & ROL-
LINS, L.L.P., Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.

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Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See
Local Rule 36(c).

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OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This appeal arises from an interpleader action filed in district court
by Provident Accident Insurance Company. The subject res was
insurance proceeds that accrued upon the untimely death of Carl B.
Little II, the policy holder. The two claimants of the proceeds were
Carl B. Little ("Little"), the father of the deceased, and Pamela J.
Jacobs, the ex-wife of the deceased and guardian of the deceased's
minor child, Carl B. Little III ("Trey"). 1 Little appeals the district
court's order granting Jacobs' motion for summary judgment and
awarding the proceeds to Jacobs as Trey's legal guardian.2   2

This court reviews a grant of summary judgment de novo. See Hig-
gins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 863 F.2d 1162, 1167 (4th Cir.
1988). Summary judgment is appropriate only if there are no material
facts in dispute and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a mat-
ter of law. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c); Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477
U.S. 317, 322 (1986). All reasonable inferences are to be drawn in
favor of the non-moving party. See Cole v. Cole , 633 F.2d 1083, 1092
(4th Cir. 1980).
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1 Neither party disputes that the insurance proceeds are for the benefit
of the deceased's minor son, Trey.
2 The parties agreed to submit the appeal on the briefs.

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We have reviewed the submitted record and briefs, as well as the
pertinent case law on this matter, and are persuaded that the judgment
of the district court was correct. Accordingly, we affirm on the rea-
soning of the district court. See Little v. Jacobs, No. CA-99-549-2
(S.D.W. Va., March 17, 2000).

AFFIRMED

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