Fisher v. Fisher

It is conceded that the deceased, on July 8, 1931, executed, on a form furnished to him by the insurance company, an instrument for the purpose of changing the beneficiary named in his policy from Caroline Fisher (hereafter called the defendant) to Pearl Fisher, Myrtle Sanborn, Edward J. Fisher, and H.J. Fisher, and that this instrument was received by the company on July 30, 1931, and a notation made thereon, "Policy not received; file for any legal effect it may have."

In John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Jedynak, 250 Mich. 88,90, it was said:

"It is well settled that if the insured wanted…