Hopkins v. Hopkins' Adm'r
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 63 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. A provision in a life insurance policy on the life of the husband for the benefit of his wife, to the effect that the insured may change the beneficiaries, is void because not within the charter powers of the company, and is in violation of the general law. (Gen. Stats., Appendix, p. 40-2, secs. 30-3; Charter of Southern Mutual Life Ins.
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Case 63 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. A provision in a life insurance policy on the life of the husband for the benefit of his wife, to the effect that the insured may change the beneficiaries, is void because not within the charter powers of the company, and is in violation of the general law. (Gen. Stats., Appendix, p. 40-2, secs. 30-3; Charter of Southern Mutual Life Ins. Co. of Ky., approved March 19, 1878, sec. 6, art. 7; Kobinson v. Duvall, 79 Ky., 83; Duvall v. Goodson, 79 Ky., 224; Weisert v. Muéhl, 81 Ky., 336; Bayse v. Adams, 79 Ky., 368; May on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Holt
January 29,1884, the Mutual Life Insurance Company insured the life of William W. Hopkins in the sum of five thousand dollars, payable at his death to his wifer the appellant, Susan E. Hopkins, if living, and if not> then to their children.
*326The policy contained this clause: “ This policy is issued and accepted upon the express condition that the said ■William W. Hopkins may, with consent of the company, at any time assign it, or before assignment change the beneficiary therein, or make any other change.”
This action was brought by the wife and her infant child by the insured to compel the…
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