Geoffroy v. Gilbert

William R. Clarkson, deceased, in 1868, took out a $10,000 insurance policy in the Hew York Life Insurance Company upon his own life, payable to his daughter, Jennie Clarkson, then four years of age, or her legal representatives. The policy was paid up in ten years, but remained in his custody till his death. His daughter married the plaintiff and died childless and intestate on the 2'Tth day of .June, 1891. The father, whose life was insured, survived his daughter nearly four years, dying on the 16th day of March,1895. •

The husband now claims, as the. survivor of the wife, the right to the…