Baldwin v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an alleged oral contract of insurance upon the life of William J. Cameron, the plaintiff’s intestate. Writ dated April 2, 1895. The case was tried in the Superior Court before Fessenden, J. At the close of the plaintiff’s case, the judge ruled that upon all the evidence the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover $10,000 on an alleged oral contract of the defendant to insure the life of his intestate. He introduced evidence tending to show that one Cooper was the general agent of the defendant company for Western New York, who resided and had his place of business at Syracuse in that State; that Alvi T. Baldwin, a brother of the plaintiff, lived in Mayville, New York, doing business in Rochester, and knew Cooper several years as a life insurance agent in Syracuse; that through him this brother took out two policies of insurance on his own life in the defendant company,…
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