Whitman v. Whitman

The answer and cross-bill set up the facts that the insured reserved the right to change the beneficiary; that he gave written notice to each of the insurance companies of his intent and purpose to change the beneficiary to his wife, the appellee; that he delivered the policies to his wife as the new beneficiary; that he, caused a register to be made of his policies and recorded the fact that he had changed the beneficiary in the policies to his wife; that the companies understood and treated the policies as having changed the beneficiary. The appellant insists that this was but a conclusion…