Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'n v. Mettler
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF "TEXAS. Tills was an action brought by Jennie M. Mettler in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas,. December 2, 1897, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, against the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Association of Philadelphia,-, to recoyer on three policies of insurance upon the life of one William A. Hunter, payable to his widowed sister,…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF "TEXAS. Tills was an action brought by Jennie M. Mettler in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas,. December 2, 1897, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas, against the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Association of Philadelphia,-, to recoyer on three policies of insurance upon the life of one William A. Hunter, payable to his widowed sister, Jennie M. Mettler, each stipulating for the payment of $5000 in case of Hunter’s death. The policies were dated in…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Inasmuch as the validity of the statute of Texas authorizing the recovery of damages and attorneys’ fees for failure by life and health insurance compani.es to pay losses was seasonably drawn in question by defendant below as being in contravention of the Constitution of th'e United States, we think the case comes within Loeb v. Columbia Township Trustees, 179 U. S. 472; American Sugar Refining Company v. New Orleans, 181 U. S. 277, and that the writ of error may be maintained. The motion to dismiss is, therefore, overruled.
Four propositions are-relied on as grounds of reversal, which we will…
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