Legal Opinion
Brown v. Gordon
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 14, 1937No. 337PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The questions before us on this appeal, are whether the cash surrender values of four life insurance policies of which the wife of the bankrupt is the beneficiary, but in all of which the bankrupt reserved the right to change the beneficiary, are exempt from the claim of the trustee under section 55-a of the Insurance Law of the State of New York enacted on March 31, 1927 (Consol.Laws N.Y. c. 28).
Three of the policies (two issued by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and one by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company), having a total cash surrender…
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