Salentine v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Milwauhee County. The case is stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of premiums paid on one policy and the amount insured by the other policy, with interest.
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APPEAL from tbe Superior Court of Milwauhee County. The case is stated in the opinion. The defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of premiums paid on one policy and the amount insured by the other policy, with interest. They argued that by the terms of the second policy the company was bound to pay, either the full amount insured, or the amount of premiums received by it, within sixty days after notice and proofs of death, and on notice that the death was by suicide, it was bound to make its election and give notice thereof. Stewcvrt v. Donnelly, 4 Yerg.…
1Opinion of the CourtOrton, J.
This action is to recover the insurance on two life insurance policies given by the appellant company to Katherine Salentine, the respondent, and wife of Peter Sal-entine) on his life, — the first one dated the 19th day of September, 1881, and numbered 105,844; and the other one dated the 20th day of September, 1883, and numbered 115,218; the first of $2,000, and the other of $3,000.
The first of the above policies had the following conditions : “ That in case he should die by his own hand, etc., this policy shall be, void, null, and of no effect, except that in *582'case be-shall die by bis own…
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