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Hilario Gercio vs. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada 48 Phil 53

HILARIO GERCIO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF CANADA ET AL., defendants. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, appellant.

G.R. No. 23703 | 1925-09-28

EN BANC
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
 
MALCOLM, J .: 
 
The question of first impression in the law of life insurance to be here decided is whether the insured - the husband - has the power to change the beneficiary - the former wife - and to name instead his actual wife, where the insured and the beneficiary have been divorced, and where the policy of insurance does not expressly reserve to the insured the right to change the beneficiary Although the authorities have been exhausted, no legal situation exactly like the one before us has been encountered. 
 
Hilario Gercio, the insured, is the plaintiff. The Sun Life...