Hunt v. Remsberg

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Graves, J.:

This is an action upon an administrator’s; bond to recover insurance money received upon the life of John H. Hunt, and used as a part of his, estate. The *666widow is dead; the plaintiffs are the children of John H. Hunt, deceased. It is claimed that this money belongs exclusively to the children of Hunt, and is no part of the estate of the insured, and that neither the administrator nor the probate court has any right to assume control of or to exercise any dominion over it.

On the 2d day of December, 1897, at Burlington, Iowa, John H. Hunt…