Wright v. Vermont Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant on the life of Alexander H. Wright, and payable to the plaintiff, who was his wife. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Richardson, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
1. We are of opinion that the first request for instructions should have been granted.* The promise to pay to the plaintiff was by intendment of law made with Alexander H. Wright, and his administrator was the proper party to sue. The St. of 1887, c. 214, § 73, did not change this rule of law. Nims v. Ford, 159 Mass. 575. McCarthy v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. 162 Mass. 254. The St. of 1894, c. 225, which gives the person to whom a policy of life insurance is made payable the right to maintain an action thereon in his own name, by its terms applies only to policies thereafter issued, and has…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Ruggles v. PattenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812
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- Lewis v. AustinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
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