Garretson v. Western Life Indemnity Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — W. S. Ayres, Judge. Action at law upon contracts of reinsurance made by defendant company with the United States Life Endowment Company and the Life Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, whereby it is claimed defendant company reinsured one William C. Garretson on two original policies in the sum of $4,000 each, issued by the Old Wayne Mutual Life Association, of Indiana, to the said Garretson, in which plaintiff herein was made the…
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — W. S. Ayres, Judge. Action at law upon contracts of reinsurance made by defendant company with the United States Life Endowment Company and the Life Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, whereby it is claimed defendant company reinsured one William C. Garretson on two original policies in the sum of $4,000 each, issued by the Old Wayne Mutual Life Association, of Indiana, to the said Garretson, in which plaintiff herein was made the beneficiary. The death of the insured and the making of proper proofs of death were alleged and are practically admitted; but…
1Per curiam
I. The record is long, and the facts complicated by reason of the number of reinsurance contracts intervening between the issuance of the original policies to the insured and the final contracts entered into by the defendant with its immediate reinsurers; and we shall have some difficulty in making a clear and accurate statement of even the undisputed facts.
Garretson took out his original policies in the year 1893, in what was known as the Old Wayne Mutual Life Association, of Indianapolis, Indiana. They were each for a sum of not to exceed $4,000, and the premium was $25.00 in cash upon the…
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- Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Fischer v. . Hope Mutual Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Glen v. . H. Mutual L. Ins. Co. of N.Y.New York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. GrayCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1908
- Spande v. Western Life Indemnity Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1911
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