In re the Estate of Pastore

Wingate, S.

In this discovery proceeding the sole question not determined at the hearing is as to whether the administratrix or the respondent is entitled to the proceeds of three policies of industrial insurance, upon the life of the decedent, written by the Prudential Insurance Company. By their terms these policies were payable to the executors or administrators of the insured, subject to the option of the company to pay any other person equitably entitled, pursuant to the usual facility of payment clause.

The insurance company declined to exercise the privilege of payment accorded it under…