Provident Life & Trust Co. v. Fidelity Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 69, Jan. T., 1902, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1900, No. 346, on bill in equity in case of Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia v. Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Company, substituted for Swithin C. Shortlidge, as Administrator of Marie Dixon Jones Shortlidge, Deceased, et al. Bill of interpleader. Before Aüdenreid, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 69, Jan. T., 1902, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1900, No. 346, on bill in equity in case of Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia v. Fidelity Insurance Trust & Safe Deposit Company, substituted for Swithin C. Shortlidge, as Administrator of Marie Dixon Jones Shortlidge, Deceased, et al. Bill of interpleader. Before Aüdenreid, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in awarding the fund to Garrett E. Smedley, substituted assignee.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
On September 17, 1879, the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia issued its policy of insurance to S within C. Shortlidge, by the terms of which it promised to pay him the sum of $10,000 on September 17, 1900, when he would be sixty years of age; but, if he should die before that time, the promise of the company was to pay the said sum to his wife, Jennie J. Shortlidge, and such children as should survive him, in equal shares to each; and, if none should survive, then to his executors, administrators or assigns, within sixty days after due notice and…
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