Hagenkamp

The plaintiff in this action sought to recover from the defendant corporation, Equitable Life Assurance Society, the sum of $750, alleged to be the proceeds due upon a matured 20-year endowment life insurance policy issued by the corporation defendant to Philip W. Wegman, deceased, and which, during the latter’s lifetime, had been assigned by him to the plaintiff. Catherine W. Wegman, the widow of the deceased, by leave of the court first had and obtained, filed in the action her complaint in intervention, wherein she claimed the sum in suit by virtue of an assignment of the policy to her alleged to have been made prior to the claimed assignment thereof to the plaintiff. Issue was joined by the plaintiff upon the allegations of the complaint in intervention; and by stipulation of the parties the corporation defendant deposited with the court the sum in suit upon the condition that it be applied in satisfaction of any judgment which might be rendered in the action for either the plaintiff or the intervener. The record shows the rendition of a judgment on August 7, 1913, in favor of the plaintiff and against the intervener, based upon findings of fact which, among other things,…