Northern Life Insurance v. Burkholder

The petition for a rehearing sets forth an able analysis and criticism of our previous decision. The criticism, friendly in nature, seems to be prompted by a belief that the venerable justice, now deceased, who was the author of our previous decision, in an effort to do justice to a young woman whom the insured a few days before his death endeavored to make the beneficiary of this policy of insurance, and with whom he had exchanged promises of marriage, unconsciously departed from the rules which govern a court of equity in determining the beneficiary in a policy of insurance. We quote from…