Van Norman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Ins.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Smith, J., entered March 4, 1892, for the sum of $407.46. April 16, 1869, the defendant, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, issued to one Hermann Bunse a policy of life insurance. The material parts of the policy are stated in the opinion, Bunse lived until after the policy matured. In June, 1893, it was assigned to the plaintiff.
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Appeal by defendant, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, from a judgment of the District Court of Hennepin County, Smith, J., entered March 4, 1892, for the sum of $407.46. April 16, 1869, the defendant, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, issued to one Hermann Bunse a policy of life insurance. The material parts of the policy are stated in the opinion, Bunse lived until after the policy matured. In June, 1893, it was assigned to the plaintiff. The trial court held that on April 16,1875, when the insured defaulted in payment of interest on premium notes, the policy had…
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
This is an action upon a ten-year endowment life insurance policy, the right of action upon which the plaintiff acquired by assignment. The insurance was in the sum of $1,000, upon the life of one Bunse, to whom the policy was issued April 16, 1869. By its terms the amount of the insurance was payable twenty-two years thereafter, or upon the death of the assured, in case he should die within that period. His death not having occurred, the policy *63matured April 16,1891. The controversy is as to whether the obligation of the defendant to make any payment was terminated by the default of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Franklin Life Insurance v. WallaceIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
- Hull v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
- Symonds v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1877
- Ewald v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
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