Fox v. Queen Insurance
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Fite. Whitfield superior court. April 12, 1905. A. R. Fox, as trustee, suing for the use of William W., Mary Jane, Jane E., Lillie Evaline, and John Anderson Fox, brought an action against the Queen Insurance Company of America, and alleged the following facts: On Márch 18, 1904, in consideration of two dollars and fifty cents, the defendant issued to A. E. Fox a policy of insurance in the sum of $200, insuring him against loss by…
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Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Fite. Whitfield superior court. April 12, 1905. A. R. Fox, as trustee, suing for the use of William W., Mary Jane, Jane E., Lillie Evaline, and John Anderson Fox, brought an action against the Queen Insurance Company of America, and alleged the following facts: On Márch 18, 1904, in consideration of two dollars and fifty cents, the defendant issued to A. E. Fox a policy of insurance in the sum of $200, insuring him against loss by fire on a certain dwelling in Dalton, Ga. The property was held by A. E. Fox in trust for his children, for whose use he…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Under the petition as amended, it appeared that four of the cestuis que trust-ent for whose benefit A. E. Fox took out the policy of insurance had reached the age of twenty-one years previously to the issuance of the policy, and the fifth cestui que trust had died. If, therefore, Fox held the legal title to the property as a trustee previously to the issuance of the policy to him, the trust has apparently become executed, as to four of the beneficiaries, and it may be that it would appear, if the instrument creating the trust were before us, that he had…
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