New England Mutual Life Insurance v. Woodworth

Citations

• 111 U.S. 138
• 4 S. Ct. 364
• 28 L. Ed. 379
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1768

Syllabus

<p>Conflict of Law — Corporation—Executor and Administrator.</p> <p>A policy of life insurance, issued by a company incorporated in one State, payable to the assured, his executors or administrators, is assets for the purpose of founding administration upon his estate in another State, in which the corporation, at and since the time of his death, does business, and, as required by the statutes of that State, has an agent on whom process against it may be served.</p> <p>Under § 18, chap. 8, of the Revised Statutes of Illinois, of 1874, a husband is entitled to administration on the estate of his wife, if she left property in Illinois.</p> <p>Letters of administration which state that the intestate had at the time of death personal property in the State, are sufficient evidence of the authority of the administrator to sue in that State, in the absence of proof that there was no such property.</p>