Lemon v. Phœnix Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, to compel the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company to pay to the petitioner the amount of a policy of life insurance ; brought to the Superior Court, and referred to a committee who found the following facts : On the 1st of January, 1868, the respondents, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, a corporation established by this state, were doing business by their agent in this state and' in Canada., and have so continued tp do business ever since.
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Bill in equity, to compel the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company to pay to the petitioner the amount of a policy of life insurance ; brought to the Superior Court, and referred to a committee who found the following facts : On the 1st of January, 1868, the respondents, the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, a corporation established by this state, were doing business by their agent in this state and' in Canada., and have so continued tp do business ever since. On the 9th of January, 1868, George C. Peterson, of Canada, made application to the company, through their agents at Montreal,…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
In January, 1868, the respondent issued a policy on the life of George C. Peterson for |3,000. This was in the usual form of an endowment policy, and no question arises upon it. In November, 1868, this policy was surrendered and cancelled, and at the request of the assured a new policy issued in its place, like the former in every respect except that it was payable to the petitioner, with whom the assured was under an engagement of marriage. The leading question in this case is whether the petitioner became the owner of this second policy.
It is not claimed that the mere fact of malting the…
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- Rawls v. . American Mutual Life Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1863
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