Wood v. Lane
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus. Relators applied for mandamus to compel respondent to permit an amendment substituting certain of them as plaintiffs in the place of their eo-relator, Wood, in a suit brought to recover life insurance to which they were entitled as heirs of the'ir father. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Morse, J.-
The • deceased, Frank L. Silvers, at the time of his death, February 18, 1889, was insured in the Michigan Mutual Benefit Association of Hillsdale, Mich., in the sum of $3,000, the certificate of such insurance agreeing and promising to pay, 60 days after his death, *522if certain conditions were performed, the said sum of $3,000 to “Josie Silvers (wife), heirs, administrators, and assigns.” Josie Silvers died February 17, 1889, one day prior to her husband’s decease. They left no issue. Josie left a will devising and bequeathing all her property to Frank, her husband. Frank died…
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