Gorrell v. Home Life Ins. Co. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error fo the Circuit Court of Ihe United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Assumpsit by the Home Life Insurance Company of New York against William P. Gorrell.
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In Error fo the Circuit Court of Ihe United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Assumpsit by the Home Life Insurance Company of New York against William P. Gorrell. The circuit court directed a verdict and gave judgment against the plaintiff in error for $6,088.57. Besides the common counts in assumpsit, rhedeclaration contained a special count, in support of which the following promissory note was adduced in evidence: “$7,500.00. March 19, 1891. “On demand, after date, I promise to pay to the order of Home Life Insurance Co. seventy-five hundred dollars, at…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
(after stating the case). It is insisted that the court below erred in three particulars: First, “in sustaining demurrers to defendant’s special pleas;” second, “in refusing to permit petitioner to prove, on the trial of the cause, conversations and correspondence between plaintiff in error and C. A. Townsend, the president of the Home Life Insurance Company, in relation to the note in controversy;” third, “in directing the jury to find for the defendant in error.” Waiving any question of these specifications meeting the requirements of our tenth and twenty-fourth rules, that “an assignment…
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