Supreme Court of the United States January 10, 1876, 94 (Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Tisdale)

Mr. Justice Hunt

delivered the opinion of the court.

In an action brought, not as administrator, but in an individual character, to recover an individual debt, where' the right of action depends upon the death of a third party, —to wit, an' insurance upon his life, — do letters of administration upon the estate-of such party, issued by the proper Probate Court, afford' legal evidence of his death