Rose v. Wortham

The question involved in this case is to whom the proceeds of a policy on the life of .Sidney Wortham, for $5,000, shall be paid; whether to his widow and child or to his creditors. The Chancellor held that the widow and child were entitled to the proceeds, after deducting certain expenses of collection, and the administrator and creditors appealed to this Court, and assigned as error this holding of the Chancellor. The cause has been heard by the Court of Chancery Appeals, and they *507hare affirmed the decree of the Chancellor, and the administrator and creditors have appealed from that…