Sullivan v. Sullivan

Mr. Presiding Justice Willis

delivered the opinion of the court.

William B. Sullivan died October 28, 1904, leaving him surviving Nellie Sullivan, his widow, and a large family by a former wife, of whom William E., Charles and Joseph Sullivan are appellants here. On November 30, 1904, Nellie Sullivan received a draft for $1,000, the amount of an insurance policy carried by deceased in the Catholic Order of Foresters in which she was named the beneficiary. She indorsed the draft and turned it over to William E. Sullivan, who, near the first of December, paid to E. M. Patrick the sum of $1,000…