Steinback v. . Diepenbrock
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 13, 1896, affirming a judgment of the late Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York in favor of plaintiff and the defendant Erdtmann, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered February 13, 1896, affirming a judgment of the late Court of Common Pleas for the city and county of New York in favor of plaintiff and the defendant Erdtmann, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. This action was brought to recover the proceeds of a certain policy of insurance for $10,000, issued on the life of Alois Diepenbrock, appellant’s testator, by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. The amount due thereon was claimed, on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, Ch. J.
The counsel for the appellant in his argument insisted with great earnestness and force that the position several times asserted by this court in support of the legality of the assignment of a policy of insurance to a person having no insurable interest in the life of the insured, is a mistaken one and in conflict with the decisions of the United States Supreme Court and the court of last resort in many of the states.
Warnock v. Davis (104 U. S. 775); Franklin v. Hazzard (41 Ind. 116); Missouri Co. v. Sturges (18 Kan. 116); Schoenfield v. Turner (75 Texas, 334); Bayse v. Adams…
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