Bennett v. Featherstone

This cause involves the right to the proceeds of a fire insurance policy. Defendant owns a life estate in the premises, which were burned, and complainant owns the remainder interest. The hill was filed by the re-mainderman against the life tenant and insurance company, and asks that the proceeds of insurance upon the house burned be applied to replacing the building, or loaned out until the death of the life tenant, so as to preserve the remainder to him, and to enable the life tenant to receive the interest during her life.

There was a demurrer to. the hill, which set up, in substance, that,…