New York Court of Appeals
Eadie v. . Slimmon.
December 5, 186226 N.Y. 9
Summary
The Court of Appeals held that the assignment of the insurance policy was procured by undue influence and therefore void, treating the later formal assignment as part of the original coerced transaction; it also concluded that the policy was not assignable by the wife under the 1840 insurance act and that any consideration based on compromising a felony was invalid. The judgment of the general term was reversed and the special term affirmed.