Wilmot v. Charter Oak Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for a breach of contract in ■wrongfully cancelling a policy of life insurance issued by the defendants in favor of the plaintiffs; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Ilaven County, and tried to the jury, on the general issue with notice, before Stoddard, J. The insurance was upon the joint lives of the plaintiffs, Edmund A. Wilmot and Cynthia J. Wilmot his wife, for the sum of $2,000 payable to the survivor on the death of either, upon an annual premium of…
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Assumpsit for a breach of contract in ■wrongfully cancelling a policy of life insurance issued by the defendants in favor of the plaintiffs; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Ilaven County, and tried to the jury, on the general issue with notice, before Stoddard, J. The insurance was upon the joint lives of the plaintiffs, Edmund A. Wilmot and Cynthia J. Wilmot his wife, for the sum of $2,000 payable to the survivor on the death of either, upon an annual premium of $120.08 to be paid as follows: a note of $60 to be given and $80.04 to be paid in cash on the 21st clay of May in each…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The policy of insurance in question was issued May 21st, 18G7, on the joint lives of the plaintiffs, payable to the survivor on the death of either. The annual premium was $120.08, of which $30.04 was to be paid in cash on the 21st days of May and November in each year, and the remain*493ing $60 by note dated May 21st and payable one year from date. The premiums had been regularly paid up to November 21st, 1876, inclusive.
For the cash payment of $30.04 due May 21st, 1877, and the interest on the outstanding notes ($23.76,) amounting in all to $53.80, Mr. Wilmot, one of the plaintiffs, gave his…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Sheldon v. Connecticut Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1856
- Day v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1878
- Averill v. HedgeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1838
- Howland v. Continental Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
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