Thompson v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Missouri
•Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This case stands on simple naked acts of indulgencies granted to the plaintiff, for two successive years. The memorandum referred to, formed a part of the policy itself.
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•Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. This case stands on simple naked acts of indulgencies granted to the plaintiff, for two successive years. The memorandum referred to, formed a part of the policy itself. (Stocking vs. Fairchild, 5 Pick. 181; Grirnerson vs. Murray, 4 N. H., 171; Roberts vs. Chenango County Mutual Insurance Company, 3 Hill, 501; 1 Phillips on Ins., § 68, p. 51 ; 1 Arnold on Insurance, p. 41.) The proof showed that in regard to the previous payments of the annual premiums, they had always been paid weeks after they were due, and received by the defendant without objection,…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Judge
This was an action on a. policy of insurance issued by the defendant to Alfred O. Bernoudy, whereby in consideration of two hundred and thirty and twenty-eight hundredth dollars paid by him, and an annual premium of the same amount to be paid on or before the 28th day of March, in each and every year next after the date of the policy for nine years, the Company assured the life of said Bernoudy, in the sum of three thousand dollars, to be paid to the plaintiff at the expiration of the nine years, or if Bernoudy died in the meantime, to be paid in ninety days after due notice or proof of his…
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