Felrath v. Schonfield
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appear from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the lion. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 8th December, 1883, by Joseph Felratli, as a creditor of Siegmund Yogel, deceased, against Mrs. Henrietta Yogel, his widow, Mrs. Caroline Schonfield (who was the mother of Mrs. Yogel), Henry Bernstein (who was the brother of Mrs. Schonfield), the Mobile Life Insurance Company, and several other corporations in the nature of insurance associations.
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Appear from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the lion. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 8th December, 1883, by Joseph Felratli, as a creditor of Siegmund Yogel, deceased, against Mrs. Henrietta Yogel, his widow, Mrs. Caroline Schonfield (who was the mother of Mrs. Yogel), Henry Bernstein (who was the brother of Mrs. Schonfield), the Mobile Life Insurance Company, and several other corporations in the nature of insurance associations. Its object and purpose was, to set aside two conveyances of property, which had been executed by said S. Vogel to Mrs.…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
— The bill is filed by the appellant, Felratli, as a creditor of one Yogel, to reach the proceeds of certain policies of insurance taken out by him on his own life, and payable to his wife as beneficiary. The theory of the suit is, that the investment by the deceased husband was a fraud on the appellant and other creditors.
The main inquiry, upon which the case depends, is, as to whether these policies can be properly construed to come within the influence of section 2733 of the present Code. This section declares, that “ any married woman, by herself and in her name, or in the name of any…
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