Fish v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by Agnes Cheney Fish, executrix under the will of Person C. Cheney, late of Manchester in the State of New Hampshire, for a balance alleged to be due under a policy insuring the life of Person C. Cheney in the sum of $3,000, made payable as stated in the first paragraph of the opinion, on which the defendant already had paid one half of the sum named in the policy.
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Contract by Agnes Cheney Fish, executrix under the will of Person C. Cheney, late of Manchester in the State of New Hampshire, for a balance alleged to be due under a policy insuring the life of Person C. Cheney in the sum of $3,000, made payable as stated in the first paragraph of the opinion, on which the defendant already had paid one half of the sum named in the policy. Writ dated June 18, 1903. In the Superior Court the case was heard by G-askill, J.'on an agreed statement of facts. He found for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,695, and gave judgment for that amount. The defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
Person C. Cheney in the year 1883 toot out a policy of insurance upon his own life in the defendant company payable to “ Sarah W. and Agnes A. Cheney wife and child of the said Person C. Cheney or if they are not living to the executors, administrators, or assigns of the said Person C. Cheney.” Sarah W. the wife died on April 4,1901, testate, and the plaintiff Agnes A. is executrix of her will and sole legatee under the same. The insured died on June 19,1901, indebted to the defendant upon certain promissory notes unconnected with the con*359tract of insurance. The defendant has paid the daughter…
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