Wanschaff v. Masonic Mutual Benefit Society

This was a suit brought in the circuit court of Atchison county by the plaintiff against the defendant insurance company to recover the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars on a policy of insurance, which had been effected in said company upon the life of her husband, who had subsequently died while the same was in force. The petition alleged that the defendant bank had the policy of insurance in its possession, though it had no right or title thereto. The answer of-the defendant insurance company admitted the allegations in the plaintiff’s petition, but further alleged as an excuse for not…