Carney v. Poindexter

The People’s Service Drug Stores, Inc., caused the life of John Poindexter, one of its employees, to be insured in the sum of one thousand dollars in a group policy issued by the Equitable Life Assurance Society with Bessie Poindexter, the wife of the employee, as the named beneficiary.

Bessie Poindexter was indicted for killing her husband. While the case was pending, she employed two lawyers, R. Lee Carney and Beverley R. Worrell, to defend her and, in compensation for their services, she executed an assignment reading as follows:

“Know all men by these presents that I, Bessie Poindexter, of…