Opinion
Argued January 26, 1927
Decided March 1, 1927
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
Charles E. Hughes and John Foster Dulles for appellant.
Albert Ottinger, Attorney-General ( Claude T. Dawes and Clarence C. Fowler of counsel), for Superintendent of Insurance.
John W. Davis and David E. Hudson for Equitable Life Assurance Society, amicus curiae. Walter H. Pollak, Ruth I. Wilson and Frederic C. Pitcher for respondent.
Louis Marshall, James Marshall and Borris M. Komen, amici curiae. Osmond K. Fraenkel and Charles Recht for Russian Policyholders, Inc., amici curiae. Frederick B. Campbell and Paul C. Whipp for First Russian Insurance Company et al., amici curiae. Samuel Greenbaum, Edward S. Greenbaum and Jonas J. Shapiro, amici curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs, on opinion in Sliosberg v. New York Life Insurance Company ( 244 N.Y. 482). First question certified answered in the affirmative; other questions not answered.
Concur: CARDOZO, Ch. J., POUND, CRANE, ANDREWS, LEHMAN, KELLOGG and O'BRIEN, JJ.