Grubbs v. National Life Maturity Insurance
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgments of the Circuit Court of the city of Eichmond, rendered December 3, 1894, in two actions of assumpsit, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendants in error were, severally, defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
These cases are before us upon writs of error to judgments of the Circuit Court of Richmond city. The action in each case is assumpsit, upon a policy of insurance issued to William A, Grubbs, now deceased, and the defendant craved oyer of the policy sued on, and demurred to the declaration, in which demurrer the plaintiff joined. The Circuit Court sustained the demurrer and dismissed each suit, on the ground that the policies are sealed instruments upon which an action of assumpsit will not lie.
At the lower left-hand corner of the policy in the first-named case there is impressed the…
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