Blumberg v. Coxe

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

Each of the two bankrupts, who are the petitioners in this court, claimed as exempt certain insurance policies on his life, each of which policies was made payable to “American Trust & Savings Bank of Birmingham, Alabama, as trustee.” The 'trustee in bankruptcy claimed the cash surrender value of the several policies. Under each of the policies the insured had the right to change the beneficiary. By the terms of the instruments creating the trusts referred to, .the trust was operative only with respect to the proceeds payable at or after the death of the insured on…