Legal Opinion

Adam v. Columbian National Life Insurance

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided April 21, 1920No. Gen. No. 24,827PublishedCited by 14 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Victob P. Abitold, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1918. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff administrator brought this action against the defendant company, seeking to recover the proceeds of a $5,000 policy of life insurance, which had been issued by the company to plaintiff’s intestate. The defendant took the position in the trial court that the policy had lapsed by reason of the failure of the assured to pay an annual premium and that it could only be liable for the paid-up value of the policy on the date said premium was due, with interest from that time, amounting in all to $632.54. The issues were…

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Phenix Insurance v. StocksIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  2. Continental Insurance v. RuckmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
  3. Phenix Insurance v. HartIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Railway Passenger & Freight Conductors' Mutual Aid & Benefit Ass'n v. TuckerIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
  5. Bennett v. Union Central Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1903

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Baier v. State Farm InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1975
  2. National Bank of Albany Park v. NewbergAppellate Court of Illinois · 1972
  3. Salloum Foods & Liquor, Inc. v. Parliament InsuranceAppellate Court of Illinois · 1979
  4. Glad-Nan Corp. v. Henry's Drive-In, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1961
  5. Handley v. DrumAppellate Court of Illinois · 1925

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