HANGED MAN'S INSURANCE.
I The Industrial Assurance Commissioner I "as ruled that Mrs. Anne Jane Podmore, mother of _ William Henry Podmore, the man with a scar," who was executed last April for the murder in October, 1928, of Mr. Vivian Messiter, in a garage at Southampton, is entitled to payment on an assurance .policy taken out on her son's life. The commissioner adjudicated in the dispute between Podmore's mother and the Tunetall and District Assurance Collecting Society. "There is no case," said the commissioner, in his written report, "as far as I am aware which decides that persons who claim independently of the executed felon cannot recover. Here Mrs. Podmore is claiming in her own right as proposer of a policy on the life of her son, and though her right to claim has been accelerated by the felony and consequent execution of the life assured, she does not claim through him and her right to recover is not affected by his felouious act."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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164HANGED MAN'S INSURANCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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