Ryan v. Prudential Insurance
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 24, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from order of, C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1903, No. 145, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Bridget Ryan, Administratrix of the Estate of Mary Menningham, deceased, v. Prudential Insurance Company of America. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance.
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Appeal, No. 24, Jan. T., 1906, by plaintiff, from order of, C. P. Luzerne Co., Oct. T., 1903, No. 145, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Bridget Ryan, Administratrix of the Estate of Mary Menningham, deceased, v. Prudential Insurance Company of America. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance. Before Wheaton, J. On motion to take off nonsuit, Wheaton, J., filed the following opinion: The defendant, on March 11, 1901, and October 20, respectively, issued two policies of insurance'on the life of plaintiff’s decedent. Both of these policies afterwards lapsed for failure to pay premiums.…
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Beaver, J.,
Two policies of insurance upon the life of Mary Mennighan, which had undeniably lapsed for nonpayment of premiums,-were sought to be revived, under circumstances and upon conditions contained in the said policies, fully set forth in the opinion of the trial judge in the court below in overruling the motion to take off the judgment of nonsuit. The facts are so clearly stated in that opinion that it is unnecessary to restate them here. The decedent died within fifteen days after the payment of the money required to secure the revival.
It cannot, of course, be said that the…
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