Legal Opinion

Cahn v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 3, 1917No. Gen. No. 23,301PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Robert E. Crowe, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McSurely

Plaintiff, holding a semitontine life .insurance policy issued by the defendant, which had matured, was entitled to certain options, including one involving the cash payment to him of a so-called surplus; the amount of this surplus is the subject of this suit. Defendant says it is- $2,396.98, but plaintiff claims that it is $6,245.50.

A phase of this case was formerly before us; see Cahn v. Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co., 192 Ill. App. 172. Subsequent to that decision a judgment was entered against defendant for the amount admitted to be due, that is, $2,396.98, and the judgment order,…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Keithley v. Mutual Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1916
  2. Pierce v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
  3. Williams v. New York Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1913
  4. Townsend v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  5. Pennington v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1917

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Citizens State Bank v. SkeffingtonNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1924

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