McGowin v. Menken
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Submission of a controversy as to the disposition of the proceeds of policies, etc., in the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States upon the life of Frank B. Tesson, deceased, upon an agreed statement of facts pursuant to section 1279 of he Code of Civil Procedure.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The decedents were husband and wife. They were passengers on the Lusitania, and both perished when the steamer *842was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland on the 7th day of May, 1915. It is stipulated that there is no available evidence with respect to survivorship. The question submitted for decision is, which of the administrators is entitled to the proceeds of three policies on the life of the husband in the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. The company brought an action of interpleader against the administrators in the Supreme Court in the…
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