Holdom v. Ancient Order of United Workmen
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook couuty; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. On April 10,1888, appellee made and delivered to one Carl Holz a certificate, in consideration of the payment of an examination fee and all dues and assessments, etc.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook couuty; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. On April 10,1888, appellee made and delivered to one Carl Holz a certificate, in consideration of the payment of an examination fee and all dues and assessments, etc. The certificate states that Holz is a member of Alleghany Lodge No. 346, located in Chicago, and entitled to participate in the beneficiary fund to the amount of $2000, which, at his death, shall be paid to his son, Paul Holz. Suit was brought by the beneficiary, by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
The only question of law presented in this record is, does an insane beneficiary in a life insurance policy, who kills the insured under such circumstances as would cause the killing to be murder if the beneficiary were sane, thereby forfeit his right to recover the insurance money? This presents a question of first impression.
The causing the death of an assured by felonious means, by a sane assignee of a policy of life insurance, has been held sufficient to defeat a recovery on the policy. (New York Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 117 U. S. 591; Prince of Wales Ins. Co. v. Palmer, 25…
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- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- The Columbia Insurance Company of Alexandria, in Error v. Joseph W. Lawrence, Who Survived Thomas PoindexterSupreme Court of the United States · 1836
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- Owens v. . OwensSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1888
- Morse v. CrawfordSupreme Court of Vermont · 1845
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