Hopkins v. Northwestern National Life Insurance

The complaint alleges, in substance, that Thomas O. Hopkins, one of the appellants in this case, en*593tered into' a contract of life insurance with, the defendant corporation, by the terms of which plaintiff agreed to pay promptly all dues and assessments which should be levied by defendant, and at the end of ten years, to wit, on March 18, 1898, he was, in the event of his survival, to surrender his certificate and receive $1,000 upon an endowment policy; that a clause in the contract provided that, in the event of the death of the insured before the- ten years had elapsed, Carrie Hopkins, one…