Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0159-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12224.
    Cates, adm’x, v. Bankers Health & Life Insurance Company.
    Decided June 14, 1921.
    Appeal; from Richmond superior court — Judge Henry C. Hammond. January 19, 1921.
    
      Timothy S. Lyons, for plaintiff.
    
      Archibald Blackshear, for defendant.
   Luke, J.

An administratrix cannot maintain a suit on an insurance policy upon the life of her intestate, where the policy names a beneficiary. Accordingly, in this case, the policy not being payable to the decedent’s estate, it was not error for the court to dismiss the action. See, in this connection, Cason v. Owens, 100 Ga. 142 (28 S. E. 75), and Perry v. Tweedy, 128 Ga. 402 (57 S. E. 782, 119 Am. St. R. 393, 11 Ann. Cas. 46).

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., concurs. Bloodworth, J., disqualified.