Anderson v. Northern & Dakota Trust Co.

I concur in what'is said in the majority opinion concerning the matters upon which reversal is predicated, but I am unable to agree with the construction which my associates place upon chapter 149 of the Session Laws of 1929.

Section 8719 of the Compiled Laws of North Dakota for 1913, as construed by the decisions of this court cited in the majority opinion, provided that the avails of a life insurance policy payable to the personal representatives of a deceased, his heirs, or estate, passed to the heirs at law of the insured by contract and not by descent, and that such avails did not become…