Jackson v. Leonard

An insurance company issued a policy on the life of a girl eighteen years of age, making her mother the beneficiary. One of the provisions of the policy was as follows: “With the consent of the company, the insured, if twenty-one years of age, may from time to time change the beneficiary by request to the home office upon the company’s prescribed form accompanied by the policy, such change to take effect only upon endorsement hereon by the company.” Subsequently the girl was married, and requested the' insurance company to make her husband the beneficiary, instead of her mother, stating that…