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· 4/6/1896

Carpenter v. United States Life Insurance

Citations

  • 174 Pa. 636
  • 34 A. 211
  • 1896 Pa. LEXIS 940

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life insurance — Insurable interest — Person in loco parentis.</p> <p>A young woman who is befriended through motives of benevolence and kindness by an elderly man, who sends her to school, and pays her expenses, and subsequently sends her to a commercial college to learn stenography and typewriting, where she remains until his death, has an insurable interest in the life of her benefactor.</p>

Judges: Cueiam, Fell, Green, Mitchell, Stekrett, Williams

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