Mutual Life Ins. v. Hill
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the District of Washington. This is an action to recover the amount of a life insurance policy, brought by the defendants in error, as beneficiaries under said policy, against the plaintiff in error, the company issuing the policy. The case is before this court for the second time; having been removed to the supreme court of the United States (20 Sup.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the District of Washington. This is an action to recover the amount of a life insurance policy, brought by the defendants in error, as beneficiaries under said policy, against the plaintiff in error, the company issuing the policy. The case is before this court for the second time; having been removed to the supreme court of the United States (20 Sup. Ct. 914, 44 L. Ed. 1097) after the first hearing (38 C. C. A. 159, 97 Fed. 263-270, 49 L. R. A. 127) upon certiorari, and by that court certified back to, the…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
The assignments of error relate to the refusal of the court to give certain instructions requested by the plaintiff in error, to the giving of other instructions by the court, and to the refusal of the court to grant a motion by the plaintiff in error for a judgment in its favor notwithstanding the verdict.
Upon the former hearing it was held by this court that the policy of insurance in controversy was a New York contract, according to its terms, and that the Laws of New York of 1877 (chapter 321, § 1), providing that no insurance company shall declare a policy forfeited for nonpayment of…
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- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NY v. CohenSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Baxter v. Brooklyn Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Mutual Life Insurance v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Mathews v. Columbia Nat. Bank of TacomaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1900
- Mutual Life Ins. v. HathawayCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1901
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