Schmidt, Admx. v. Prudential Ins. Co.

OPINION OP COURT.

The following is taken, verbatim, from the opinion.

PUNK, J.

Counsel for plaintiff contend that the rights of the parties should be determined according to the laws of West Virginia, and that, under the law of that state, a contract of insurance obtained by a person of his own life, for the benefit of another having no interest in his life, is void as against public policy — in other words, that said Anna did not have an in-sux*able interest in decedent.

Counsel further contend that the legal effect of having named a beneficiary without an insurable interest in decedent, is the…