Wagner v. Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit in the nature of interpleader to determine the rights of the respective claimants in and to a sum of money paid into court by the Mutual Life Insurance Company as the amount due from it under a policy upon the life of the plaintiff’s deceased husband, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $9,028, and appeal by the People’s Bank and Trust Company, one of the defendants, who…
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Suit in the nature of interpleader to determine the rights of the respective claimants in and to a sum of money paid into court by the Mutual Life Insurance Company as the amount due from it under a policy upon the life of the plaintiff’s deceased husband, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Gager, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $9,028, and appeal by the People’s Bank and Trust Company, one of the defendants, who claimed the money in its capacity of administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. upon the estate of the insured decedent." • S. Harrison…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The reasons of appeal based upon the exceptions to the finding are not in due form. Practice Book, 1908, p. 268, § 9. The record satisfies us that neither of the several exceptions—-if made in accordance with our prescribed method—-would have furnished valid ground of appeal.
The first and second reasons of appeal raise the point that all of these contracts of loan and the assignment were invalid, since Mr. and Mrs. Wagner were married prior to 1877. The third reason of appeal is that Mr. Wagner’s agreement to pay Mrs. Wagner interest on her loans was without consideration, since he was…
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