Bowman v. Moore

Citations

• 87 Cal. 306
• 25 P. 409
• 1890 Cal. LEXIS 1137

Syllabus

<p>Mutual Benefit Association—Insurance oe Life — Chance of Beneficiary. —Where a certificate of membership in a mutual benefit association, purporting to be an insurance on the holder’s life, payable after his death to his wife as beneficiary, provides that the member may, in writing filed with the association, substitute some other beneficiary, the sending of a letter to and filing it with the association by the holder of the certificate, requesting that the beneficiary he changed to the executors named in his will, and an indorsement upon the certificate, signed by the secretary, changing and substituting the beneficiary, is a substitution in writing of another beneficiary, in accordance with the provisions of the certificate.</p> <p>Id.—Change in Writing — Act of Secretary — Agency. — It is not necessary, to effect a change of the beneficiary, that the change should he wholly in the handwriting of the member; hut it may he done through the agency and handwriting of the secretary, provided it was done by the authority of the member, and for him.</p> <p>Id. — Substitution of Executors as Beneficiaries —Will —Devise. — The substitution of the executors of the member as his beneficiaries, and the insertion in his will of a direction to them to apply the proceeds in payment of his debts, is not an attempt to devise by will the policy or its proceeds.</p>