Everson v. Equitable Life Assur. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
This was a hill by T. Bissell Everson against the Equitable Life Assurance Company praying a’discovery and accounting in respect to the amount due him under a matured semi-tontine life insurance policy. Defendant demurred to the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON. District Judge.
On August 12, 1881, the respondent, the Equitable Life Assurance Company, a corporation created by the state of New York, issued a life insurance policy to the complainant, T. Bissell Everson, then and now a citizen and resident of Pennsylvania, for $10,000. Certain provisions were made part of said policy, the ones pertinent to the present question being:
“First. That this policy is issued under the semi-toutine plan, the particulars of which are as follows: Second. That the tontine dividend period for this policy shall be completed on the 2Sth day of May, in the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Root v. Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
- People v. Security Life Insurance & Annuity Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Uhlman v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Bogardus v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Ambler v. ChoteauSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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