Rogers v. Bottsford
Supreme Court of Georgia
Interest. Insurance. Administrators and Executors. Before Judge Harrell. Terrell Superior Court. May Term, 1871. Rogers, of Georgia, averred that, in 1870, C. T. Bottsford died testate, and he became his administrator cum testamento annexo. The intestate was insured by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, for $5,000 00, payable to intestate’s “ heirs and assigns.” This money was paid to Rogers, as administrator.
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Interest. Insurance. Administrators and Executors. Before Judge Harrell. Terrell Superior Court. May Term, 1871. Rogers, of Georgia, averred that, in 1870, C. T. Bottsford died testate, and he became his administrator cum testamento annexo. The intestate was insured by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, for $5,000 00, payable to intestate’s “ heirs and assigns.” This money was paid to Rogers, as administrator. The will, made before the policy, simply bequeathed all his property to his “ children,” and in default of children to his brother, sister and stepmother.…
1Opinion of the Court
Montgomery, Judge.
The plaintiff in error, as the administrator cum testamento annexo of Chauncey Bottsford, received from the agent of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company $5,000 00 on a policy in which the company at Hartford, Connecticut, contracted to pay, in the event of the death of said Chauncey, the insurance money to his “ heirs or assigns.” The testator left all his property to his children, (of whom he had two,) to the exclusion of his widow, the defendant in *654error. Upon receipt of the money, the administrator filed a bill for direction. The agent of the company paid the money…
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