Masonic Life Ass'n v. Crandall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Susan A. Crandall, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk, of the county of Erie on the 1st day of April,. 1895, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the' Erie Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
Bryant B. Crandall, iii 1881, was insured in plaintiff’s association for the sum of $2,000, his wife, the defendant, Susan A. Crandall,, being named as the beneficiary in the policy or certificate of insurance.
In 1886 the insured was supposed to have been drowned in the Niagara river. What was then identified as his remains were buried, and the usual proofs of death conformable to the conditions of the policy were furnished, and thereupon the said $2,000 were paid to the said beneficiary by plaintiff. Crandall, at the time of his supposed demise, held other insurance policies on…
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