Winterhalter v. Workmen's Guarantee Fund Assn. of San Francisco

Citations

• 75 Cal. 245
• 17 P. 1
• 1888 Cal. LEXIS 519

Syllabus

<p>Life Insurance—Payment Subject to Disposition of Will—Executor may Maintain Action. —Where a policy of life insurance does not designate any particular beneficiary, but provides that it shall be paid subject to the will of the insured, and the latter by his will bequeaths his entire estate to a particular person, subject to the payment of his debts, the executor of the insured is the proper person to whom the insurance money should be paid, and he may maintain an action therefor in his own name without joining the legatee.</p>