Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1875

Commonwealth v. Unity Mutual Life Assurance Co.

Commonwealth v. Unity Mutual Life Assurance Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided March 25, 1875
117 Mass. 337; 1875 Mass. LEXIS 232

Commonwealth v. Unity Mutual Life Assurance Co.

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The wife and child being dead, any transmissible interest which they had, (if by law they had any, which need not be decided,) having vested in the assured as husband *340and father, and he having made no assignment or bequest whatever of the half of the policy now in question, the sum represented by that half was, by the express condition of the policy, and in accordance with his own request, added to the permanent funds of the association. ■ Petition dismissed.

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