Allen v. Central Wisconsin Trust Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Action of replevin to recover a policy of insurance issued by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee upon the life of Philip Allen, Jr., February 21, 1888, for the sum of $2,000. The policy provided for the payment of an annual premium of $118.34 for ten years.
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Appeals from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Action of replevin to recover a policy of insurance issued by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee upon the life of Philip Allen, Jr., February 21, 1888, for the sum of $2,000. The policy provided for the payment of an annual premium of $118.34 for ten years. At the end of twenty years, and prior .to the time plaintiff was made the beneficiary, the insured exercised an option to withdraw in cash the accumulated surplus, then amounting to $705.31, apportioned by the company to…
1Opinion of the CourtViNJE, J.
1. Counsel for plaintiff contends that when the1 plaintiff became the beneficiary of the policy she thereby became vested with the sole, absolute, and indefeasible title thereto by virtue of the provisions of sec. 2347, Stats. (1898),, notwithstanding the reservation in the policy of the right of the insured to change beneficiary at any time during the life-of the policy. In the view the court has taken of this case it. does not become necessary to decide that question, and it is-expressly reserved for consideration and decision when the occasion therefor shall arise.
The policy, after the…
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