Whitmore v. Supreme Lodge Knights & Ladies of Honor
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. Shepard Barclay, Judge. (1) A person has an insurable interest in bis own life, and has a right to procure a policy on the samé, and to have it made payable to any one whom he may appoint, although the beneficiary may not have any pecuniary interest in the continuance of the life of deceased, nor be of kin to him. It is not relationship between the insured and the beneficiary that is to be invoked to support the insurance. Ins.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. Shepard Barclay, Judge. (1) A person has an insurable interest in bis own life, and has a right to procure a policy on the samé, and to have it made payable to any one whom he may appoint, although the beneficiary may not have any pecuniary interest in the continuance of the life of deceased, nor be of kin to him. It is not relationship between the insured and the beneficiary that is to be invoked to support the insurance. Ins. Go..v. Allen, 138 Mass.24; Campbellv. Ins.Co., 98Mass. 389; Lemonr. Ins. Co., 38 Conn. 294; Fairchild v. K. E. M. L.…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The pleadings in this cause are, in substance, as follows :—
*41Plaintiffs, Benjamín T. and Marie E. Whitmore, are husband and wife and defendant is a corporation. On the twenty-second of November, 1883, Mary A. Mudd was a member of Nonpareil Lodge, number '592, of defendant in St. Louis, and entitled to participate in the relief fund of said order to the amount of one thousand dollars, said sum to be paid to plaintiff, Marie E. Whitmore, as trustee of Mary L. Whitmore. Defendant issued its benefit certificate under seal to said Mary A. Mudd, for one thousand dollars, payable on death of said…
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