Liachovitzky v. New York Life Insurance

The particular defect to which defendant’s motion is addressed is failure to allege the applicable law of Russia.

The complaint sets forth two causes of action. It alleges, as the first, that in December, 1902, defendant issued in Russia a twenty-year life insurance policy to plaintiff under the terms of which it promised to pay on December 1, 1922, in the city of Petrograd, Russia, the sum of 3,000 rubles, if plaintiff then survived, in consideration of plaintiff’s payment of annual premiums; “ that said policy and all the sums due thereon and thereunder were and are payable at the City of…