Whitehouse v. Travelers' Ins. Co.

(charging jury). The plaintiff in this case is Ephraim H. White-house, administrator of the estate of Horace Gowan. He -is the nominal party upon the record of the court, entitled to bring the action; but the person for whose benefit the sum sued for is to be recovered, if recovered at all, is Mrs. Gowan, the widow of Horace Gowan. He seeks to recover upon a policy of insurance against death resulting from accident, by which the sum of three thousand dollars was insured, in case of his death by accident, to be paid to his wife; the allega - *1039tion being that death happened to him by accident,…