Legal Opinion
Jacoby v. Jacoby
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided October 6, 1943No. File No. 8590PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The controversy placed at issue by this ■cause arose between the first and third wives of the late Dr. William K. Jacoby and concerns a portion of the proceeds ■of a policy insuring his life. The question to be decided is whether under undisputed facts, the plaintiff first wife, as the promise in a contract providing that the promisor, Dr. Jacoby, would maintain insurance upon his life for her benefit in the sum of $5,000, gained equitable rights in a particular policy insuring his life superior to the legal and equitable rights of the defendant third wife, who had been substituted as the…
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