Legal Opinion

Pope v. Carter

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 17, 1924No. 6 Div. 968PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOULDIN, .1.

Life insurance, taken out, and premiums paid by the insured, and payable to his estate, is property subject to the payment of his debts. A voluntary conveyance or transfer of such policies of insurance is constructively fraudulent and void, as against the existing creditors of the insured.

Proceeds of policies so carried by the husband, payable to his estate, and transferred to his wife by a change of the beneficiary named in the policies made after the husband has become insolvent, without valuable consideration, are subject to the claims of the husband’s creditors existing at the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Fearn v. WardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886
  2. McCrory v. DonaldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
  3. Hall & Farley, Trustees v. Alabama Terminal & Improvement Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1904
  4. Beall & Coston v. Lehman Durr Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1895
  5. Lehman v. GunnSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Merchants' Nat. Bank of Mobile v. HubbardSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
  2. First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. LoveSupreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  3. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. HitchcockMichigan Supreme Court · 1935
  4. Ex Parte WilkinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
  5. Bryson v. ManhartCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1936

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