NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. DROOKER

Nos. 3282, 3295.

53 F.2d 859 (1931)

NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. v. DROOKER et al. SAME v. SIMONS et al.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 18, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Wait and Choate Hall & Stewart, all of Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Wendell P. Murray, of Boston, Mass., for defendants Moses, Abraham, and Sadie Drooker.

Wendell P. Murray, of Boston, Mass., for defendants Isaac E. Simons and United States Trust Co., executors.

In No. 3295:

F. H. Nash and Richard Wait, both of Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Wendell P. Murray and Edmund M. Murray, both of Boston, Mass., for defendant.


BREWSTER, District Judge.

These two cases were tried together. In each the complainant seeks to avoid policies of life insurance issued on the life of Barnet Drooker. In No. 3282 the policies involved were made payable to the children of the insured, who are named as respondents. In No. 3295 they were payable to his estate, and the executors are respondents. In both suits complainant alleges false representations by Drooker in his applications for the insurance, and...

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