Northwestern Life Insurance v. Muskegon Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW. YORK.' This was an action at law upon a policy of insurance. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The Muskegon National Bank recovered a judgment, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, against the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance on the life of Erwin G-. Comstock for $23,717.04:, and to this judgment the present writ of error is directed.
The bank had an insurance upon the life of Comstock, its debtor, for the sum of $20,000. On the trial before the jury, although some other issues were made in the pleadings, the contest turned, so far as the assignments of error are' presented here, on the condition of…
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