New York Court of Appeals

Annie P. Ward, Appellant v. New York Life Insurance Company, Defendant, and Walter K. Ward, Respondents

January 14, 1919225 N.Y. 314

Summary

The Court affirmed the judgment for the beneficiaries, holding that the wife failed as a matter of law to produce sufficient evidence of an oral assignment of the life insurance policy and that the testimony concerning personal transactions was admissible but insufficient to establish the assignment.