McBride v. Garland

Lane, V. C.

The bill, considered as favorably to complainants as possible, may be said to allege that the Prudential Insurance Company of America, at the request of Edward M. Riehman, deceased, and in consideration of premium paid by him, issued its policy of insurance upon his life, payable to Mabel Brooks Garland, his mistress; that Riehman obtained the policy and had it made payable to Garland upon Garland’s promise that she would continue illicit relations with him; that such illicit relations continued; that the contract between Garland and Riehman was immoral and illegal; that the policy…