Manheim v. Woods
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 17,1911, and afterwards amended by the filing of a substitute bill, against William S. Woods, Clinton F. Macomber, Harold F. Hathaway and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on May 17,1911, and afterwards amended by the filing of a substitute bill, against William S. Woods, Clinton F. Macomber, Harold F. Hathaway and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. The substitute bill alleged that the plaintiff’s life was insured by the defendant insurance company for $10,000; that the plaintiff after the death of his wife employed the defendant Woods to contest her will, which practically excluded him from sharing in property which had stood in her name but had been accumulated by his efforts. The second paragraph of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBbaley, J.
The original plaintiff, Jacob Manheim, after bringing suit, died testate, and it was prosecuted by his executor until the beneficiary who claims the proceeds of the policy was substituted as plaintiff. It will be necessary to a clear understanding of the controversy to refer to the parties as they stood at the filing of the bill, for the right to relief depends upon the validity of the transfer by Manheim to the defendant Woods.
The plaintiff having been dissatisfied with the provisions of his wife’s will, which had been offered for probate, employed the defendant, an attorney at law, as his…
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