Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Board of Trustees of Michigan Asylum for the Insane
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and Charles W. Pickell against the board of trustees of the Michigan asylum for the insane at Kalamazoo. Allie B. Willey and others filed an intervening petition.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the board of trustees of the Michigan asylum for the insane, at Kalamazoo, to permit the relators to inspect the records of the asylum containing information concerning the mental and physical condition of one Vernon J. Willey, who was a patient in the asylum from July, 1910, until his death in December, 1912.
On August 6, 1910, relators began a suit in the circuit court for the county of Wayne, in chancery, against Vernon J. Willey and others for the cancellation of certain policies of life insurance which had been issued by the insurance…
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