Vanormer v. Hornberger

Citations

• 142 Pa. 575
• 21 A. 887
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 779

Syllabus

<p>1. Although, in an action by the beneficiary in a certificate of life insurance, to recover from an assignee, without an insurable interest, the amount received by the latter on the certificate at the death of the assured, the burden is on the plaintiff to show the want of insurable interest in the defendant;</p> <p>2. Yet, evidence that the assignment was executed in blank, and after-wards filled in with the assignee’s name; that, at the time, the latter did not claim to be a relative or a creditor of the assured, and that the beneficiary never knew the assignee, was sufficient to make out a prima facie case.</p>