Geoffroy v. Gilbert
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Nicolas Geoffroy, as administrator, etc., of Jennie Clarkson Geoffroy, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Alexander Gilbert and Lewis Y. F. Randolph, as executors, etc., of William R. Clarkson, deceased, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 29th day of February, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
In the month of February, 1868, William R. Clarkson procured from the New York Life Insurance Company a policy of insurance *99on his life for the sum of $10,000, which sum the life insurance company agreed to pay on the occasion of his death, to Jennie Clarkson or her legal representatives. The consideration for the policy was expressed in it to be the sum of $724.60 “paid by William R. Clarkson for the benefit of .his daughter, viz., Jennie Clarkson, and of the annual premiums for nine years of $724.60.”
William R. Clarkson was a merchant residing in Plainfield, New Jersey. His age…
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