Klimek v. Borkowski

This is habeas corpus with accompanying certiorari to test commitment of defendant for contempt in disobedience of a decree for payment of money.

Plaintiff resided in Poland and her husband in Detroit. He, ill at defendant’s home, made change of beneficiary in a policy of life insurance for $2,000, naming defendant instead of plaintiff. Defendant received the $2,000, paid funeral expenses and other charges in connection with the death and burial, in all the sum of $600. She also used practically all of the remainder of the fund in paying other bills of herself or her husband.

Upon bill, answer,…