Krause v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

This case was before us at the January term, 1894. 99 Mich. 461. Upon the second trial plaintiff recovered. The case was submitted to the jury, with the instruction that if they should find that the first policy was surrendered under an agreement to change the beneficiary, and that agreement was carried out and the change effected, the plaintiff could not recover, but that, if this agreement was not carried out, the plaintiff was entitled to recover. After the writing of the letter found in the former opinion, plaintiff wrote two other letters to the agent of the company at Detroit, demanding…