Johnson v. Agricultural Life Insurance

Flossie M. Beadle, an unmarried woman, took a one thousand dollar policy with defendant company in May, 1919, payable, in event of her death, to her brother, Floyd A. Beadle. A month or so later she married the plaintiff. In March, 1920, she concluded she would change the beneficiary from her brother to her husband. Soon after she saw Gibson, defendant’s' Detroit agent, through whom she had negotiated her policy, and disclosed to him what she desired to do. He advised that it could be done, but it would be necessary to have her policy, as that must be sent to the home office with the…