Excerpt from An Outline of the Law of Insurance: With Illustrative Cases This action was commenced to determine the conflicting claims of the various defend ants to the money paid to the plaintiff upon the policy. The foregoing facts were found at the special term and it was there also found that it was the intention of Lester, when he procured the policy and paid the premiums thereon, that the avails of the policy should go to his widow, if he left one, and not to his children, and the court at special term found as conclusions of law that during the life of Huldah Keyes the policy was her property, and at her death vested in her husband as survivor, and that John Olmsted then became, by operation of law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.