Gibbons v. Gibbons
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 142, July T., 1895, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 2, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to set aside an assignment of a life insurance policy executed by the complainant at a time when she was alleged to be insane.
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Appeal, No. 142, July T., 1895, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Lackawanna Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 2, on bill in equity. Bill in equity to set aside an assignment of a life insurance policy executed by the complainant at a time when she was alleged to be insane. The case was referred to S. B. Price, Esq., as master, who reported: 1. That the plaintiff was, at the time this suit was instituted, the widow of John T. Gibbons, deceased. 2. That the said John T. Gibbons, during his lifetime, procured a policy of insurance upon his life in The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Williams,
John T. Gibbons was, in 1888, when the policy of life insurance now in controversy was obtained, the husband of Teresa *478Gibbons and so continued till the time of his death in 1898. The policy was for 12,000 and was made payable to the wife. Should it now be paid to her ? The defendant contends that it should be paid to him as the guardian of the children of John T. and Teresa Gibbons because in 1890 she joined her husband in a written assignment of the policy to their "three- children, Annie, Maggie and Alexander. Frank was born after the assignment and had no…
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