Goldschmidt v. Mutual Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Mutual Life Insurance Company of Rew York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of. Rew York on the 8tli day of February, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 11th day of February, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This was an action brought on the 29th of May, 1877, by the plaintiffs as assignees of two policies of insurance issued by the defendant upon the life of one Oscar Edler who died on the 27th of August, 1876. The first policy provided by its terms that it should be null and void if the insured should die by his own act or hand, whether sane or insane, and that in such case the company *476would return the premiums paid. The second policy provided that the self-destruction of the person, whether voluntary or involuntary, and whether he he sane or insane at the time, was not a risk…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance v. HillmonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Goldschmidt v. . Mutual Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Rogers v. Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New YorkCalifornia Supreme Court · 1903
- Landon v. Preferred Accident InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
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