Hutson v. Merrifield

This is a controversy between two administrators, each representing a different estate.

The facts out of which the question in dispute grows are these: Newton Bingham and Emma L. Bingham were husband and wife. On the 23d day of March, 1867, Emma Lb obtained from the New York Life Insurance Company a, policy on the life of her husband. So much of the policy as it is material to set out reads as follows:

“This policy of insurance witnesseth, that the New York Life Insurance Company, in consideration of the representations made to them in the application for this policy, and of the sum of…