Blethen v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff brought this action to recover part of the proceeds of a life insurance policy upon the ground that the same constituted community property.

Briefly stated, the facts of the ease set forth in the record, are these: In 1900, George W. A. Blethen and plaintiff in termarried. Subsequent thereto, in December, 1914, the appellant Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, a corporation, issued to Blethen two policies of life insurance in the sum of $4,000, respectively. One of these policies was permitted to lapse. In the other policy Blethen’s sister, Alice M. Scott, was…