Department of Welfare of Commonwealth v. Farmer's Committee

Opinion or the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

This case presents the question can the Department of^Welfare subject the total disability benefits under certain life insurance policies to the maintenance and support of an insured after he has been committed to an asylum; or shall such payments be used for the support of the mother of the insane insured?

On March 10, 1920, Robert H. Farmer insured his life for $3,000 in the Prudential Insurance Company of America, naming his mother, Celie, as beneficiary. On Dec. 15, 1922, by indorsement on the policy, the…