Brown v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

FREAR, C.J.

Tbis is an action on a policy of insurance for $25,000 upon the life of David B. Smith, deceased. It is brought by the administrator of his estate, who was appointed by a Circuit Judge of the First Circuit in this Territory. Another action has been brought on the same policy in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York by administrators who were appointed in the Surrogate’s Court for the County of New York. The defendant company seems ready to pay the amount of the policy to the administrator rightfully entitled to *82it, but…