Henry v. Knights & Daughters of Tabor

This appeal is from a judgment of the court below, sustaining a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that it did not state a cause of action.

The allegations of the complaint are that the plaintiffs are the sole heirs at law of one Annie Porter, whose life was insured in the defendant insurance company for the sum of $300, payable upon her death to her husband, Robert Porter, and that the beneficiary had wilfully murdered the insured, thereby forfeiting his. right to the proceeds of the insurance certificate, and defendant had, after demand so to do, failed to pay plaintiffs, as the…