Carson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 10, Feb. T., 1896, by defendant, from, judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 173, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover the amount due on a policy of insurance.
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Appeal, No. 10, Feb. T., 1896, by defendant, from, judgment of C. P. Lycoming Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 173, on verdict for plaintiff. Assumpsit to recover the amount due on a policy of insurance. Before Metzgeb, P. J. Verdict for the plaintiff for $100. Errors assigned were: (1) In answer to the defendant’s point: That as the witnesses for the plaintiff concede that pneumonia is a pulmonary disease, the plaintiff, if entitled to recover at all, can only recover $50.00, with interest from the date of the death of John W. Carson. Answer: It is denied, as I understand it, that the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Willard, J.,
This was an action in the court below by the appellee against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York upon a contract of insurance dated July 2, 1894. John W. Carson, the deceased husband of the appellee, was the life insured. By the terms of the policy it was provided that for and in consideration of certain weekly premiums the company was to pay to the said John W. Carson, if he lived twenty years, the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) ; and in case he died before the expiration of twenty years to pay to any relative by blood or connection by marriage of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hartman v. Keystone InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1853
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