Mutual Life Insurnace v. Hill
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. On April 28, 1886, George D. Hill, at Seattle, Washington, signed a written application to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (hereinafter called the.insurance company) for a policy of $20,000. The application was forwarded to the home office.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. On April 28, 1886, George D. Hill, at Seattle, Washington, signed a written application to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (hereinafter called the.insurance company) for a policy of $20,000. The application was forwarded to the home office. The insurance company accepted the application, executed a policy , and forwarded it to its local agent at Seattle, who there, on June 12, 1886, received the first .premium and delivered the policy to Hill. The beneficiary named in the policy was Ellen K. Hill, the wife of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
A preliminary matter is this: When the case was here before we held that upon the record there was disclosed an abandonment of the insurance contract, by both the insured and the beneficiaries, and on that ground the judgment was reversed. It is now contended that “the only question left open by the mandate of this court was a submission of this question;” that our decision was substantially an adjudication that the plaintiffs had a right to recover unless it was shown that there had been an abandonment of the insurance contract, and that upon this trial it was shown that there had been no…
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