Goldstein v. New York Life Insurance

Plaintiff, the administrator of the assured, moves to strike out as insufficient in law each of the four defenses to the various causes of action pleaded in the complaint. The first defense alleges that the policies which are the basis of the suit were applied for pursuant to a conspiracy between the assured and the beneficiary, which had for its object the collection of the insurance from the defendant company through the assured’s disappearance under circumstances which would indicate that he had died; that in accordance with the conspiracy the assured attempted to simulate a drowning in…