Douglass v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District .Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Action by Mrs. Helena Machado Douglass against the Equitable Life Assurance Society and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
This is a contest between the widow of William S. J. Douglass, late of New Orleans, and the defendants for the proceeds of a certain life insurance policy issued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society to William S. J. Douglass for $5,000, wherein Mrs. Douglass was named as the beneficiary, and which policy had been assigned by the assured during his lifetime to Charles A. Thiel, Jr., who in turn had assigned it to the codefendant company.
Thiel answered that he was the owner of the policy by virtue of the assignment referred to, executed May 19, 1908, by petitioner and her late husband, which…
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