State Ex Rel. Tobin v. Independent Life Ins.

. Me. Chief Justice Gkeen

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In the above-styled cause the affairs of the Independent Life Insurance Company are being wound up in the chancery court through a receivership. The case is before us now on certiorari to the Court of Appeals, which court reversed a decree of the chancellor dismissing an intervening petition by which the beneficiary of a policy issued by the company sought recovery thereon.

The petitioner, Mrs. Mamie L. Hill, took out a policy on the life of her husband, Trueman Hill, who was the driver of a fire truck in the employ of the City of…