Mendelson v. Gausman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Fannie Mendelson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 30th day of November, 1912; upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment directed by the court at Special Term in favor of defendant in an interpleader suit *371between claimants of a death benefit payable by the Royal Arcanum on the death of Arthur Gausman.
When, in 1904, Arthur Gausman joined the Royal Arcanum, he took out a certificate naming as beneficiary his father, Alphonso Gausman, and not his wife, the defendant. After his father’s death his certificate was surrendered, and in 1910 a new certificate was issued in which he named as beneficiary the plaintiff, Fannie Mendelson, whom he described as his “ affianced…
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