Corder v. McDougall

Appeal on judgment-roll alone from judgment for defendant in an action brought to determine whether the personal representative of a deceased life tenant had exclusive right to the proceeds of a $2,000 fire insurance policy taken out by the life tenant and the insurance thereafter paid to him and deposited in bank with his other funds. The appellant remainderman opposed the claim of the personal representative, and brings this appeal.

The deceased was the life tenant of a small piece of property and improvements. The appellant remainderman is the owner of the fee, subject and subordinate to…