Witt v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Order of the Appellate Term affirming an order of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, granting summary judgment to the defendant in an action by a claimed beneficiary under two policies of insurance affirmed, with costs. Plaintiff was not the legally designated last named beneficiary in the policies at the time claims for payment thereunder were presented. When he was named by indorsement upon the policies as beneficiary, no rights vested in him that were not subject to change perforce the express language of the indorsement, which reserved the right to make a…