Crocker

The complaint originally filed herein was by the plaintiff above named and against the "Western States Life Insurance Company and one Warren Crocker to recover on a life policy of insurance on the life of the plaintiff’s testate in the sum of $1,867.16, and, as a second cause of action, to have adjudged that 110 shares of the stock of defendant Insurance Company are the property of and rightfully belong to the estate of the deceased.

The beneficiary named in the insurance policy upon which recovery is sought by the plaintiff, as executrix, etc., is Warren Crocker, the brother of the deceased. The shares of stock referred to are in the name of “Crocker Brothers,” the firm name or designation by and under which the deceased and said Warren Crocker, during a long period of time prior to the death of the former, conducted general merchandise stores in the county of El Dorado. The plaintiff is the widow of the deceased, William Franklin Crocker.

On December 27, 1924, all the parties entered into and filed a written stipulation in which it was stated: That the Western States Life Insurance Company “admits its liability in the sum of $1,867.16 under the policy mentioned in plaintiff’s…