Sick v. Michigan Aid Ass'n

Cooley, J".

The plea in abatement should not have been sustained in this ease.

The suit is on a peculiar contract of insurance of the life- and health of Frederick Sick, and is instituted in the name of his widow and minor children. If the infants alone had been the beneficiaries, a next friend must have been, appointed for them before instituting suit: Comp. L. § 6531; Wilder v. Ember 12 Wend. 191; but this is in ordeithat the defendant may have some one responsible to him for costs; and the statute has made no such requirement where the infants are joined with an adult plaintiff. Still there…