MacLay v. Equitable Life Assurance Society
Supreme Court of the United States
EEEOE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action, brought February 12, 1889, in the civil district court for the parish of Orleans in the State of Louisiana, by Robert P. Maclay, a citizen of Louisiana, and tutor of Mason Snowden, a minor child and sole issue of Samuel H. Snowden and Mary Louisa, his wife, against the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a corporation of New York; and removed by the…
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EEEOE TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action, brought February 12, 1889, in the civil district court for the parish of Orleans in the State of Louisiana, by Robert P. Maclay, a citizen of Louisiana, and tutor of Mason Snowden, a minor child and sole issue of Samuel H. Snowden and Mary Louisa, his wife, against the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, a corporation of New York; and removed by the defendant into the Circuit Court of the United States for the. Eastern District of Louisiana; to recover the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
By the terms of the policy sued on, the amount of the insurance upon the life of Samuel BL Snowden was payable, after notice and proof of his death, to his wife, if living, and if not living, to his children, or their guardian, for their use.
It was proved at th j trial that the wife died in Mississippi; •that the husband was thereupon appointed, under the laws of Mississippi and by the chancery court of the county of Wilkinson in that State, administrator of her estate, and guardian of the person and property of their only child; and that he described himself, in his administration bond, as…
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