United States Life Insurance v. Lesser
Supreme Court of Alabama
Aitisal from 'tlie City Court of Birmingham. Tried before tlie Hon. H. A. tíiíAttim. This action was brought by Emil Lesser against the United ¡States Life Insurance Company, to recover $3,000 alleged to be dué on a policy of insurance, which was issued by the defendant on March 8, 1893, upon the life of one, Henry tíilberman, and was made payable' to Emil Lesser, the plaintiff, tíilberman died on October 21, 1893. The defendant pleaded four pleas.
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Aitisal from 'tlie City Court of Birmingham. Tried before tlie Hon. H. A. tíiíAttim. This action was brought by Emil Lesser against the United ¡States Life Insurance Company, to recover $3,000 alleged to be dué on a policy of insurance, which was issued by the defendant on March 8, 1893, upon the life of one, Henry tíilberman, and was made payable' to Emil Lesser, the plaintiff, tíilberman died on October 21, 1893. The defendant pleaded four pleas. The first and 'second pleas were the general issue. The third plea was a ‘special plea, in which the defendant set up that the policy went into…
1Per curiam
The action in which the appellee AA’as plaintiff and the appellant defendant, was founded on a policy of insurance on-the life of Henry Silberman for $3,000, issued by the defendant, in which the plaintiff AAras the assured. The assignments of error .are numerous, involving the rulings of the court below on demurrers to 'special replications in ansAver to special pleas in bar; the admission and rejection of evidence; and the giving and refusal of instructions to the jury.
*579The special pleas were numbered respectively three and four. The first in substance alleged that by the terms of the policy…
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