Summit v. United States Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. O. D". Wheeler, Judge. Action at law upon a policy of life insurance issued by defendant company upon tbe life of William J. Summitt, now deceased, and made payable to the executors, administrators, or assignees of tbe assured. Plaintiff is tbe administratrix of the assured, and brings this suit to recover $2,000, tbe amount promised to be paid in tbe event of tbe death of tbe insured.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court. — Hon. O. D". Wheeler, Judge. Action at law upon a policy of life insurance issued by defendant company upon tbe life of William J. Summitt, now deceased, and made payable to the executors, administrators, or assignees of tbe assured. Plaintiff is tbe administratrix of the assured, and brings this suit to recover $2,000, tbe amount promised to be paid in tbe event of tbe death of tbe insured. Defendant pleaded , that tbe policy bad been forfeited long before the death of tbe insured, and other matters to which we shall refer during tbe course of tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
William J. Summitt, Avho lived at Carson, in this state, took out a policy of life insurance for $he sum of $2,000, in tbe defendant company, in January of tbe year-1893. He paid tbe first year’s premium of $30.54, and agreed to pay an annual premium of like amount on tbe 27th day of January in each and' every year during tbe continuance of tbe contract. These payments‘were to be made at tbe company’s offices in Neiv York City, and payment of the-insurance was also to be made at that place. Tbe policy Avas' to take effect upon the delivery thereof to tbe assured, but it Avas signed at tbe…
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- Paine v. Lake Erie & Louisville RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1869
- Eagan v. ConnellyIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
- Fischer v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
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