Bennett v. New York Life Ins.

Citations

• 60 Pa. Super. 605
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 357

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life insurance — Assignment—Fraud.</p> <p>Where a policy of life insurance payable to the insured’s executor, administrator or assigns,-was assigned by the insured to his adopted daughter, and the proceeds thereof paid to the daughter after the death of the insured, the executor of the insured cannot successfully maintain an action against the insurance company to recover the amount of the policy on the ground that the insured was insolvent at the date of the assignment, where there is no evidence whatever that the insurance company had any knowledge of the alleged insolvency, or of any fraud in the assignment.</p>