Catland v. Hoyt
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Ox EXCEPTIONS and motion to set aside the verdict. Assumpsit by the executor of the last will of David B. Catland, deceased, to recover money received by defendant on a benefit policy of life insurance on the life of said David. The opinion states the case and material facts. cited, on the admissibility of the evidence: 1 Greenl. Ev.
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Ox EXCEPTIONS and motion to set aside the verdict. Assumpsit by the executor of the last will of David B. Catland, deceased, to recover money received by defendant on a benefit policy of life insurance on the life of said David. The opinion states the case and material facts. cited, on the admissibility of the evidence: 1 Greenl. Ev. (13 ed.) § 284, a; Dearborn v. .Parks, 5 Greenl. 81; Burbank v. Gould, 15 Maine, 120; Schilling e¡' v. McCann, 6 Greenl. 364; Tyler v. Garitón, 7 Greenl. 175; Emmons v. Littlefield, 13 Maine, 233 ; Nickerson v. Saunders, 36 Maine, 413 ; Goodspeed v. Fuller, 46…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
It appears by the report in this case that David B. Catland obtained from the United Order of the Golden Cross a certificate in the nature of a life insurance policy, by the terms of which the money that should become due upon it was to be paid to the defendant, and that the defendant, after the decease of Catland, actually received upon it the sum of $1959.60. The plaintiff, who is the executor of David B. Catland, claims, and, at the trial, offered evidence tending to prove, an oral agreement between the defendant and the deceased, by the terms of which the defendant promised that, after…
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