Healy v. Mathews
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action, in the district court for Hennepin county against the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company to recover $2,015.50 upon an insurance policy upon the life of Samuel F. Mathews. Sarah J. Mathews was substituted as defendant in the action and the amount of the policy was deposited by the insurance company in trust for the parties to the litigation, to be paid to such party as the order of the court should designate.
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Action, in the district court for Hennepin county against the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company to recover $2,015.50 upon an insurance policy upon the life of Samuel F. Mathews. Sarah J. Mathews was substituted as defendant in the action and the amount of the policy was deposited by the insurance company in trust for the parties to the litigation, to be paid to such party as the order of the court should designate. The subsequent proceedings are narrated in the opinion. The case was tried before Dickinson, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. From the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
In his lifetime Samuel F. Mathews procured to be issued a policy of life insurance, payable to plaintiff in this action, who was then his wife. Thereafter plaintiff obtained a divorce, and Mathews married defendant herein. No change in the name of the beneficiary was ever effected, and it remained, until the death of Mathews, payable to plaintiff by name. She thereafter brought this action against the insurance company to recover thereon. The second Mrs. Mathews, the present defendant, having made claim to the money as the wife of Mathews at the time of his death, was, on application of the…
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