Miller v. Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for'the District of Maryland; the suit being one by Mrs. H. Miller against the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company to recover $5000, insured .by her husband, Walter Miller, for her benefit, on his own life. ■ The evidence proved, or tended to prove, the following case: The insurance company — a stock company, not a mutual one — being desirous of taking risks in St. Louis, appointed Dutcher & Fasset their general agents for that place, and gave to them,…
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Error to the Circuit Court for'the District of Maryland; the suit being one by Mrs. H. Miller against the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company to recover $5000, insured .by her husband, Walter Miller, for her benefit, on his own life. ■ The evidence proved, or tended to prove, the following case: The insurance company — a stock company, not a mutual one — being desirous of taking risks in St. Louis, appointed Dutcher & Fasset their general agents for that place, and gave to them, as they did-- to all their general agents, a printed book, showing .to them their powers as agents, and containing the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Issues-of fact in civil cases pending in the Circuit Courts may be tried and determined by the court without the,intervention of a jury, whenever the parties or their attorneys of record file a stipulation in writing with the clerk of the. court waiving a jury. Such a submission necessarily implies that the facts shall be found by the court, and' the act provides that the finding may be either general or special, and that it shall have the same effect as the verdict of a j-ury in a case.wheré no such waiver is made. Exceptions, however, may be taken to the rulings of the court made in the…
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