The following excerpt is from Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. v. Hartshorn, 238 F.2d 417 (9th Cir. 1956):
"* * * courts of equity will seek to do that which the insured apparently intended to have done; and to award the fund to the claimant who has the strongest claim under the circumstances, especially where the insured did all he could toward complying with the formalities." Citing Johnson v. Kearns, 107 Cal.App. 557, 290 P. 640.
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