Kulp v. March
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 592 and 593, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgments of C. P. Montgomery Co., Dee. T., 1896, Nos. 6 and 7, on verdicts for defendant. Interpleader to determine the ownership of certain policies of life insurance. Before Weand, J. T. Jefferson March, executor of Henry G. Kulp, deceased, brought one suit against the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and another against the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, on separate policies.
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Appeals, Nos. 592 and 593, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgments of C. P. Montgomery Co., Dee. T., 1896, Nos. 6 and 7, on verdicts for defendant. Interpleader to determine the ownership of certain policies of life insurance. Before Weand, J. T. Jefferson March, executor of Henry G. Kulp, deceased, brought one suit against the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and another against the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, on separate policies. The widow intervened in both cases, the money was paid into court by the insurance companies, and interpleaders were framed between the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Gbeen,
In considering the question at issue in this case, it must be carefully borne in mind that the deceased, Henry G. Kulp, had formally executed a regular assignment in writing and under seal, to his wife, the plaintiff, of all the policies of life insurance involved in the present contention. It was a perfect instrument and carried all his interest in the policies, naming each one of them by a full description, and it was regularly signed and sealed, and subscribed by an attesting witness. In its terms it was an absolute assignment and transfer without any…
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