Peterson v. Manhattan Life Insurance
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. W. H. Gfst, Judge, presiding.
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Writ of Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of Henry county; the Hon. W. H. Gfst, Judge, presiding. On October 11, 1897, Martin J. Peterson, executor of the last will and testament of Charles H. Peterson, deceased, brought an action in assumpsit in the circuit court of Henry county against the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, defendant in error, to recover the amount of a policy of insurance theretofore issued by the said company upon the life of said Charles H. Peterson, deceased. To the declaration defendant in…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
When the judgment was entered in the Appellate Court, plaintiff in error, by the statute then in force, had five years in which to sue out a writ of error from this court. On July i, 1907, section 117 of chapter no, Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1908, became effective. By that section the time within which a writ of error might be sued out was reduced from five years to three years. The writ herein was sued out more than three years but less than five years after the date of the judgment of the Appellate Court. Defendant in error has not pleaded the statute nor moved to dismiss the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Phoenix Life Ins. Co. v. RaddinSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Accident Insurance v. CrandalSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Continental Life Insurance v. ChamberlainSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Martin v. StubbingsIllinois Supreme Court · 1888
- Jehiel Brooks, in Error v. Samuel NorrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
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