Fuller v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit upon certain policies of life insurance, praying for a disclosure, an accounting and other equitable relief, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Greorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered requiring a disclosure and accounting upon the part of the defendant, and appeal by it for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Suit upon certain policies of life insurance, praying for a disclosure, an accounting and other equitable relief, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Greorge W. Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered requiring a disclosure and accounting upon the part of the defendant, and appeal by it for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The record of the pleadings etc., exclusive-of the evidence, covers more than five hundred printed pages. The following statement contains those matters appearing in the record which are material to…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
In affirmance of a salutary principle in the conduct of trials, § 1064 of the General Statutes provides that whenever evidence offered upon the trial of any civil action is objected to as inadmissible, it shall be the duty of the court, if either party shall request a decision, to then pass upon such objection and admit or reject the testimony. Upon the trial of this case the plaintiffs offered in evidence the records, pleadings and depositions in a former action in the United States Circuit Court, as evidence and conclusive evidence of facts material in the present case; the defendant…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Cromwell v. County of SacSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Collins v. . HydornNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Curtis v. BradleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
- Peck v. PierceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Jacques v. Bridgeport Horse RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
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- Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. Malcolm-SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
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