Filley v. Illinois Life Insurance

*198The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

In view of the literature on file in this case, especially the somewhat emphatic petition for a second rehearing, it has been determined to reexamine the questions presented by the record, and the writer has been assigned the task of formulating the result.

It is mutually conceded and asserted that an ordinary old-line policy vests a personal interest in the beneficiary, hence no authorities need be cited in support of that proposition. Of course such vested interest arises from the contract, and the corollary follows that the obligations of…