O'Connor's Administrator v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

^Affirming.

This is an action by John O’Connor’s administrator, against the appellee, on a policy of insurance issued to him in 1904. On the first trial a verdict was returned, for the plaintiff, upon which judgment was entered. .

On appeal from that judgment this court held that there could be no recovery by the administrator because although .the policy had been originally issued to John O’Connor, it was shortly thereafter assigned to Mary O’Connor, pursuant to an arrangement entered into at the time the policy was procured, and was really an evasion of the…