Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Tilley

The plaintiff below, appellee here, instituted this action in the chancery court against the defendant below, appellant here, on a policy insuring James Richard Holder against death by accident in the sum of $1,000. The appellee alleged that the assured was murdered by his wife, the beneficiary named in the policy; that she thereby forfeited' her claim to the insurance, and that the' appellant was holding the same in trust for the estate of the deceased, which the appellee, as administrator, was entitled to recover on behalf of the estate of the deceased, James Richard Holder. The appellee…