Rice v. Smith
Mississippi Supreme Court
Thom the chancery court of Sunflower county. HoN. W. E. TRIGG, Chancellor. In addition to the facts set out in the opinion, it is, perhaps, material to state that the appellants, who filed the bill in the court below to recover of the administrator the proceeds of the life insurance policy, are the brothers of Wm. H. Rice, deceased, whose life was insured. They reside in North Carolina. The said Wm.
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Thom the chancery court of Sunflower county. HoN. W. E. TRIGG, Chancellor. In addition to the facts set out in the opinion, it is, perhaps, material to state that the appellants, who filed the bill in the court below to recover of the administrator the proceeds of the life insurance policy, are the brothers of Wm. H. Rice, deceased, whose life was insured. They reside in North Carolina. The said Wm. H. Rice died intestate in this state on February 2, 1892, and the defendant, A. B. Smith, a creditor, was appointed administrator of his estate February 17, 1892. It will thus be seen that the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
In the year 1889, Wm. H. Rice, a resident of this state, took out a policy of insurance for the sum of two thousand dollars upon his own life, payable to himself, his executors, administrators or assigns. He died in February, 1892, in Sunflower county, and soon thereafter the appellee, Smith, was by the chancery court of that county appointed as administrator of his estate. Early in March, Smith, as such administrator, collected the amount due on the policy, the greater part of which sum yet remains in his hands. Section 1261, code 1880, is as follows: “The amount of any life insurance…
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