Legal Opinion
Kansas City Life Ins. v. Shirk
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided May 27, 1931No. 419PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLLOCK, District Judge.
This is an action at law brought on two policies of life insurance, one for $2,000 and the other for $3,000. The parties will be referred to as they stood on the record below. These policies were issued on the life of Alfred L. Waterman. As written, they were payable to the estate of the insured, but later the policy of $3,000 was made payable to Mary E. Waterman, and the $2,000 policy to Flossie B. Waterman. It is claimed by plaintiff these policies were assigned to one George G. Shirk, a creditor of Waterman, and that Shirk became the beneficial owner of the…
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