Connecticut Mut. Life Ins. v. Duerson's ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
This ease was heard at Richmond, but was decided •at Wytheville. It was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, brought in December 1878, by William R. Duerson, executor of Robert O. Duerson, deceased, against the Connecticut Mutual life insurance company, to recover the amount of two policies of insurance upon the life of the said Robert Duerson issued by the said company.
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This ease was heard at Richmond, but was decided •at Wytheville. It was an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Spotsylvania county, brought in December 1878, by William R. Duerson, executor of Robert O. Duerson, deceased, against the Connecticut Mutual life insurance company, to recover the amount of two policies of insurance upon the life of the said Robert Duerson issued by the said company. The ' process was served on A. A. Little, who had been the ^general agent of the company. Upon the calling of the cause in September 1874,, the defendant, by counsel, moved the court to quash…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
It must he regarded as settled law, at least in Virginia, that contracts of life insurance entered into' before the late war, by parties who were separated by • the belligerent lines, are not abrogated, but only suspended, by the war. The New York Life Ins. Co. v. Hendren, 24 Gratt. 536; citing Manhattan Life Ins. Co. v. Warwick, 20 Gratt. 614; Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. v. Atwood’s adm’x, 24 Gratt. 497; and New York Life Ins. Co. v. White—special court of appeals of Virginia—■ Insurance Law Journal for December 1873, p. 917. These Virginia decisions are in accord with the decisions of the…
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