In Re Degnan

When Jerome J. Degnan married Helen Hogenson in May, 1928, he owned a policy of insurance on his life for $1,010 issued by Prudential Insurance Company, wherein his sister was named as beneficiary. The following month he took out a second life policy for $1,000 with the same insurer, naming "Helen D. Degnan, wife of insured," as beneficiary and a month later he caused the insurer to endorse on his first policy a change of beneficiary from his sister to "Helen Degnan, wife of insured." The two policies so stood on December 23d 1932, when Degnan was committed to a state hospital for the insane…