City of New York Municipal Court, 1935

Sullivan v. Bock

Sullivan v. Bock
City of New York Municipal Court · Decided September 19, 1935 · Wendel
157 Misc. 327; 284 N.Y.S. 297; 1935 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1637

Counsel

Bernard R. Schulman, for the receiver., Frank W. Demuth, for the judgment debtor.

Sullivan v. Bock

Opinion of the Court

Wendel. J.

Motion denied. The receiver is seeking an order

directing the debtor to deliver to him an “ industrial policy of insurance and requiring the debtor to sign, execute and deliver a request to the insurer to cancel the policy and to pay the cash surrender value to the receiver. As the policy is not payable absolutely to the executor or administrator of the estate of the assured, but may under certain conditions be paid to the blood relatives or any other person equitably found to be entitled to the proceeds thereof, the court may not under the provisions of section 55-a of the Insurance Law grant to the receiver the relief requested. Order filed.

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