Robinson v. International Life Assurance Society of London
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment entered on the decision of the General Term of the Supreme Court of the first district, affirming a' judgment entered upon a verdict for plaintifi, for $13,313.26. ' ' This is an action upon a policy of life insurance, issued by the defendant upon the life of Cunningham Wardrop Macmurdo, during his lifetime a resident of Richmond, Virginia. The plaintiff brings the action as assignee of John R. Macmurdo, .the administrator of C. W. Macmurdo.
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Appeal from a judgment entered on the decision of the General Term of the Supreme Court of the first district, affirming a' judgment entered upon a verdict for plaintifi, for $13,313.26. ' ' This is an action upon a policy of life insurance, issued by the defendant upon the life of Cunningham Wardrop Macmurdo, during his lifetime a resident of Richmond, Virginia. The plaintiff brings the action as assignee of John R. Macmurdo, .the administrator of C. W. Macmurdo. The defendant is an English corporation, incorporated in the year 1831, under an act of parliament, by "the title of the Rational…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
The policy, on which this action is brought, was issued by “ The Rational Loan Fund Life Assurance Society,” 26 Corahill, London. Cowardin was regularly appointed the agent of that society to receive the premiums paid annually or quarterly at Richmond, Va., by persons to whom policies were issued. He was thus appointed by the New York board in 1858, and continued to act as such agent until the year 1865. There was no actual revocation of" his powers until the spring of that year. ,
The defendant is an incorporation, organized under the authority of the British parliament, for the purpose of…
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