Sun Life Ins. v. Taylor
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 64 — 'Action on Policy of Life Insurance APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. Action by Nettie Taylor Against the Sun Life Insurance Company on a Policy of Life Insurance. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals.
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Case 64 — 'Action on Policy of Life Insurance APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT. Action by Nettie Taylor Against the Sun Life Insurance Company on a Policy of Life Insurance. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. The case should be reversed for the following reasons: 1. The court should have given peremptory instructions for the defendant. 2. It was error to give instructions given for plaintiff, and to refuse the instructions offered for defendant. 3. It was error to allow plaintiff to testify as to acts and conversations of the decedent, and this error was not corrected by an…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE PAYNTER
Affirming.
The appellant issued a policy of insurance to Robert P. Knox om his life, and, being indebted to the appellee, Nettie Taylor, he assigned it to her, the indebtedness exceed*410ing the amount of the policy. The fourth clause of the policy provides that it shall be void “if the insured dies in consequence of his . . . own criminal action.” The twelfth clause of the policy reads as follows: “If the insured shall die three or more years after the date hereof, and after all due premium's shall have been received by the company, this policy shall be…
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- Mareck v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Simpson v. . Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1894
- McMaster v. New York Life Ins.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa · 1898
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- Smith v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1925
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