Puschman v. Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Phelps Oireuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Woodside, Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The appellant is a mutual life insurance company doing-business on the assessment plan. Each policy-holder is designated as a member of the association.
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Appeal from Phelps Oireuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Woodside, Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. The appellant is a mutual life insurance company doing-business on the assessment plan. Each policy-holder is designated as a member of the association. To become a member one is required to pay into the company, on taking ont a policy of insurance, a membership fee of three dollars upon each one thousand of insurance and to pay this fee annually, and also to pay on each one thousand, when he receives the certificate of insurance, ten dollars to the safety-fund department maintained by the company. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
I. The provisions of the policy of insurance (set out in the foregoing statement of facts) in respect to reinstatement of a member after forfeiture of the certificate of insurance, is a part and parcel of the contract of insurance *649and entitles tbe respondent to reinstatement if bis medical examination was satisfactory to tbe company. There is no evidence in tbe record that bis examination was ever submitted to tbe board of directors of tbe company, to its board of medical examiners, if it bad any, or to any board of officers authorized to pass upon tbe examination. Tbe stamp of its rejection,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dickey v. Covenant Mutual Life Ass'nMissouri Court of Appeals · 1900
3Cited by2 opinions
- King v. Hartford Life & Annuity InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1908
- Johnson v. Hartford Life InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1912