Mutual Ben. Life Ins. v. Swett
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. Suit by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company against Myra M. Swett and others. From a decree against her, defendant named appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SATER, District Judge.
The question for decision is: Are the Hackley National Bank of Muskegon, Mich., and the executors of Charles H.' Hackley, deceased, entitled to the proceeds of the $15,000 policy issued by the Mutual -Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., to Edward R. Swett on September 4, 1900, and made payable “to Myra M. Swett, his wife, if living, otherwise to the executors, administrators, or assigns of the said insured”; or do such proceeds belong to Mrs. Swett, who was named as his beneficiary and is now his widow? The case is here on her appeal from a decree against…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Central Bank of Washington v. HumeSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Sabin v. . PhinneyNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. O'BrienMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
- Hopkins v. Northwestern Life Assur. Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1900
- Robinson v. United States Mut. Acc. Ass'n of New YorkU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri · 1895
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