Accident Insurance v. Crandal
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OR ILLINOIS. This was an action against an accident insurance company upon a policy beginning thus: “ In consideration of the warranties made in the application for this insurance, and of the sum of fifty dollars, this company hereby insures Edward M. Crandal, by occupation, profession or employment a president of the Crandal Manufacturing Company,” in the sum of ten thousand dollars for twelve months,…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OR ILLINOIS. This was an action against an accident insurance company upon a policy beginning thus: “ In consideration of the warranties made in the application for this insurance, and of the sum of fifty dollars, this company hereby insures Edward M. Crandal, by occupation, profession or employment a president of the Crandal Manufacturing Company,” in the sum of ten thousand dollars for twelve months, ending May 23, 1885, payable to his wife, the original plaintiff, “ within thirty days after sufficient proof that the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The refusal of the court to instruct the jury, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, that she was not entitled to recover, cannot be assigned for error, because the defendant at the time of requesting such an instruction had not rested its case, but afterwards w.ent on and introduced .evidence in its own behalf. Grand Trunk Railway v. Cummings, 106 U. S. 700; Bradley v. Poole, 98 Mass. 169. The subsequent instructions to the jury were not excepted to. No error is assigned in the previous rulings upon evidence, except in the admission, against the defendant’s objection and exception, of…
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