Aetna Life Insurance v. Kimball
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal. A bill of interpleader brought by the Aetna Life Insurance Company against Benjamin G. Kimball, Henry J. Conley and Theodore Kerr to determine to which one of the defendants should be paid the proceeds of a certain policy of insurance issued by plaintiff on the life of Rosina W. Kimball, deceased, wife of the defendant Benjamin G. Kimball, viz; five thousand dollars which had been deposited by plaintiff with the clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County…
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On appeal. A bill of interpleader brought by the Aetna Life Insurance Company against Benjamin G. Kimball, Henry J. Conley and Theodore Kerr to determine to which one of the defendants should be paid the proceeds of a certain policy of insurance issued by plaintiff on the life of Rosina W. Kimball, deceased, wife of the defendant Benjamin G. Kimball, viz; five thousand dollars which had been deposited by plaintiff with the clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Cumberland. The sitting Justice found in favor of one of the defendants, Theodore Kerr, and decreed that the fund in…
1Opinion of the CourtHanson, J.
This was a bill of interpleader brought by the Aetna Life Insurance Company against Benjamin G. Kimball, Henry J. *573Conley and Theodore Kerr for the purpose of determining which one of the defendants was entitled to the proceeds of a certain policy of insurance issued by said Aetna Life Insurance Company on the life of Rosina W. Kimball, deceased, wife of the defendant, Benjamin G. Kimball.
The sitting Justice found that the defendant, Theodore Kerr, was entitled to the fund in question, and from the final decree, the defendant, Henry J. Conley, appeals to this court.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- Warnock v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SchaeferSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Grigsby v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Martin v. StubbingsIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Mutual Life Insurance v. AllenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Allen v. Home National BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1935
- Goodwin v. Federal Mut. Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1938
- Guaranty Trust Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Board of Tax Appeals · 1936
- Anderson v. Aetna Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922