Taylor v. American Home Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action on a life insurance policy. Plaintiff was the named beneficiary. The defendant company which issued the policy admitted it owed somebody. Another defendant claimed the proceeds of the policy under an assignment of it by the deceased insured, which assignment in its inception had also been executed by the plaintiff.

The material facts, in part, were these: In 1921 the Great Southern Life Insurance Company issued a life insurance policy for $2,000 to the late Ralph Y. Taylor, husband of this plaintiff. Taylor was an insurance…