Ticker v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

On Rehearing.

His Honor JOHN ST. PAUL,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:'

Fred O. Ticker insured his life in the defendant life insurance company.

He made the policy payable to his wife, reserving the right, however, to change the beneficiary without her consent, availing himself of the right thus reserved ¡he substituted his mother as beneficiary in place .of his wife.

Upon his death the proceeds of the policy were claimed by the mother as the beneficiary last named, by the wife as original beneficiary and as widow in community, and by his surviving minor child as his sole…