Spicer v. New York Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama; Henry D. Clayton, Judge. Action by Carl E. Spicer, administrator of the estate of Nobie N. Spicer, deceased, against the New York Rife Insurance Company. Judgment for defendant (263 Fed. 764), and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WARKER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the plaintiff in error, suing as the administrator of the estate of Nobie N. Spicer, deceased, on a policy of life insurance dated December 23, 1912, to take effect after its delivery, upon the payment of the first annual premium, as of December 9, 1912, in favor of Samuel C. Spicer, Jr., and Nobie N. Spicer, then husband and wife, whereby the defendant in error agreed—
“to pay $10,000 at - the home office of the company in the city and. state of Ne‘w York to the survivor of the insured beneficiary, with right of revoca*501tion, upon receipt at said homo…
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