Houser v. Haven

While holding an assignment of a policy of life insurance as security for indebtedness owing by the insured, the assignee, Mary Emma Houser, shot the insured three to five times otherwise than by accident or in self-defense causing his death on June 25, 1944. The insurer has paid the amount of the policy into court under its bill of interpleader and the contest is between the administrator of the insured, Graham Haven, and the assignee who appeals.

It is not seriously contended that the killing was accidental or done in necessary self-defense by the assignee, the Chancellor having found from…