Ogletree v. Ogletree
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Pendleton. Eulton superior court. October 12, 1905. The petition of Lowell C. and Wilbur P. Ogletree, suing by their next friend, Edna E. Ogletree, named the Home Life Insurance Company of New York and Joshua Pearce Ogletree as defendants, and set forth the following allegations: Some seven years ago the ■father of petitioners, Quillian P. Ogletree, made application to the insurance company for a policy on his life, and a policy for $1,000…
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Pendleton. Eulton superior court. October 12, 1905. The petition of Lowell C. and Wilbur P. Ogletree, suing by their next friend, Edna E. Ogletree, named the Home Life Insurance Company of New York and Joshua Pearce Ogletree as defendants, and set forth the following allegations: Some seven years ago the ■father of petitioners, Quillian P. Ogletree, made application to the insurance company for a policy on his life, and a policy for $1,000 ■was issued in which his wife, Edna E. Ogletree, was named as beneficiary. The policy was taken out at her instance and…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
(After stating the facts.) The petition as amended presented two theories as a basis of recovery. The first is dependent upon the effect to be given to the assignment of the policy by the insured. to the plaintiffs, wherein it is stipulated that the assignor reserves to himself “the right of revocation by giving *236written, notice to the Home Life Insurance Company and returning the assigmnent for cancellation,” and that the “assignment is made ■subject to all the terms and conditions expressed in said policy.” It is contended that this reservation was inoperative and of no •effect, because at…
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