EMPIRE GEN. LIFE INS. v. SILVERMAN

No. 84-1816.

135 Wis.2d 143 (1987)

399 N.W.2d 910

EMPIRE GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Alabama corporation, Plaintiff, v. Morris L. SILVERMAN, Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Respondent-Petitioner, Sophia DOUCAS and Doucas Oldsmobile-Renault, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation, Defendants-Respondents and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided January 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant and cross-respondent-petitioner there was a brief by Scott B. Fleming, Thomas L. Skalmoski and Weiss, Berzowski, Brady & Donahue, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Scott B. Fleming.

For the defendants-respondents and cross-appellants there was a brief by Thomas W. St. John and Friebert, Finnerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Thomas W. St. John.


LOUIS J. CECI, J.

This is a review of a decision of the court of appeals,1 affirming the judgment of the Milwaukee county circuit court, Judge Robert W. Landry, which declared that Doucas Oldsmobile-Renault was the beneficiary of an insurance policy issued by Empire General Life Insurance Company on the life of Paul Doucas. In this appeal, we are called upon for the first time to construe sec...

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