In re the Estate of Egan

Appeal by the administrator from an order and decree of the Saratoga County Surrogate’s Court which directs the administrator to pay the proceeds, amounting to $738, of a policy of insurance upon the life of decedent to the petitioner-respondent Joyce. We do not find an agreement which entitles petitioner to receive the face of the policy. He paid the premiums and it should be decreed that he have a lien upon the proceeds of the policy to the amount of premiums paid. In Shea v. United States Industrial Ins. Co. (23 App. Div. 53) the policy was issued under an agreement that the plaintiff, a…