In re the Estate of Blattner

Citations

• 89 Wash. 412
• 154 P. 796

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life Insurance — Proceeds—Exemption from Debts— Statutes. Construed together as in pari materia, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6158, providing that, if a policy of insurance is effected by any person on his own life, the lawful beneficiary thereof, other than himself or his legal representatives, shall, unless contrary to the terms of the policy, be entitled to its proceeds against the creditors, was intended to modify the sweeping provisions of Id., § 569, providing that the proceeds or avails of all life and accident insurance shall be exempt from all liability for any debt; hence, to claim the exemption, the insurance must be payable to some beneficiary “other than the assured or his legal representatives.”</p>