Succession of Miller v. Manhattan Life Ins.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by the succession of Henry Miller against the Manhattan Life Insurance Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Henry Miller, the administrators of whose succession bring this suit, took out insurance to the amount of $5,000 on his own life in the defendant insurance company in favor of “his administrators, executors,' and assigns,” and, after he had paid 10 yearly premiums of $247, assigned the policy to his wife, without consideration, unless it was in satisfaction of the obligation that rests upon the husband to make provision for his wife for the time after his death. The administrators of his succession claim that this assignment was a donation to the wife, and was null, because not made in the…
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