Legal Opinion
Cook v. Commercial Casualty Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1947No. 5542PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit on the bond given by the administratrix of a deceased seaman, one William A. Cook, to recover as distributive shares of his estate, insurance money in the sum of $5,150 paid to the administratrix.-*491Plaintiffs are the widow and minor children of Cook and it is now admitted that they are the proper distributees of his estate. Mrs. Lena C. Hucks, his sister, qualified as administratrix of his estate and collected the insurance money which she distributed to herself and Cook’s mother, who in the absence of widow and children, would have been the proper…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Grigsby v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- St. John v. . the American Mutual Life Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1855
- New York Life Insurance v. FlackCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1852
- Filley v. MurphyWashington Supreme Court · 1902
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3Cited by7 opinions
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