Brennan v. Prudential Insurance

Citations

• 148 Pa. 199
• 23 A. 901
• 1892 Pa. LEXIS 948

Syllabus

<p>Life ‘Insurance — Insurable interest — Defence to suit on policy.</p> <p>Whore a policy oi' life insurance was by its terms payable to the administrator of the insured, and after the death of the insured, in a suit upon the policy by the administrator, the company defendant set up in an affidavit of defence that the policy was issued and delivered to a third party, who took it and paid all the premiums on it as beneficiary, and that such third party had no insurable interest in the life of the insured,</p> <p>field, that the affidavit was insufficient.</p> <p>Practice — Buies of court — Court to interpret its own rules.</p> <p>Each court is the best judge of its own rules, and the Supreme Court will not interfere with the construction put upon its rules by the court below unless for palpable abuse.</p>