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Insurance-Beneficiaries-Right To Change Beneficiary Where Beneficiary Has Paid All The Premiums, Howard A. Jacobs
Insurance-Beneficiaries-Right To Change Beneficiary Where Beneficiary Has Paid All The Premiums, Howard A. Jacobs
Michigan Law Review
Insured's mother, who was the original beneficiary of a life policy, paid all the premiums before and subsequent to the time when insured's wife was substituted as beneficiary. The mother was interpleaded in the wife's suit on the policy. Held, in the absence of a collateral agreement creating a4ditional rights in the mother, the payments were gratuitous and created no vested interest in the mother in the proceeds of the policy, where the right to change the beneficiary was reserved; and that the wife was entitled to the proceeds on the insured's death. McCloud v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. …
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …