Hersam v. Ætna Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon a policy of life insurance insuring the life of one Martha A. Thompson, the plaintiff’s testatrix. Upon the defendant’s answer, Ellena T. Palmeter, who was a daughter of the husband of the testatrix, Eben S. Thompson, who had died before the policy was issued, and also was administratrix with the will annexed of his goods and estate not already administered and residuary legatee under his will, became a claimant for the amount of the policy.
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Contract upon a policy of life insurance insuring the life of one Martha A. Thompson, the plaintiff’s testatrix. Upon the defendant’s answer, Ellena T. Palmeter, who was a daughter of the husband of the testatrix, Eben S. Thompson, who had died before the policy was issued, and also was administratrix with the will annexed of his goods and estate not already administered and residuary legatee under his will, became a claimant for the amount of the policy. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated December 2,' 1915. In the Municipal Court the action was tried upon an agreed…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The insurance policy was issued on the life of Martha A. Thompson, the plaintiff’s testatrix, and was payable “to her husband, Eben S. Thompson, or in the event of his death before hers to their children, their executors, administrators or assigns.” It was a -paid up policy for $612, executed ánd delivered on or about June 28, 1877, and apparently was given in consideration of the surrender of a life policy for $1,000, dated June 11, 1865. Eben S. died February 3, 1877, or more than four months before the policy in question was issued. No children were born to him and Martha A., but he had a…
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