Curtiss v. Ætna Life Insurance
California Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeatty, C. J.
— These are separate appeals in the same case; the first from the judgment, and the second from an order denying a new trial.
The action is by the assignee of a policy of life insurance effected by his assignor upon the life of a third person, and the principal grounds upon which it is defended are, want of interest in the insured at the date of the policy, and in plaintiff at the date of the assignment. The points involved in these and other grounds of defense are raised by demurrer to the complaint, motion for nonsuit, and by numerous exceptions to the admission and exclusion of evidence,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Warnock v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SchaeferSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Broder v. ConklinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Wise v. HoganCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- Curtis v. City of SacramentoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1886
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3Cited by24 opinions
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- Rylander v. AllenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
- Pleasant v. SamuelsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1896
- Gordon v. Ware Nat. BankCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
- Mahan v. Charles W. Chan Ins. Agency, Inc., California Court of Appeal, 5th District2017
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