Holmes v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

This plaintiff in a prior action secured a judgment based upon a default in alimony payments against her former husband who is now deceased. Since his death she brought this action as a judgment creditor to recover a portion of three insurance policies on the life of her deceased former husband under section 52 of the Domestic Relations Law. The facts were stipulated and a judgment was entered whereby it was adjudged that the plaintiff recover from the defendant insurance company the sum of $4,579.05, including costs, and adjudging that the plaintiff have a lien upon the life insurance…