Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NY v. Cohen
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. On June 10,1885, the petitioner delivered to Alexander Cohen, in the State of Montana, a life insurance policy for $3000, conditioned upon the annual payment of a premium of $89.61. Upon it the insured paid premiums up to and including June 10, 1892. No subsequent premiums were paid. On September 21, 1897, he died. His wife, Tine Cohen, was the beneficiary named in the policy.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. On June 10,1885, the petitioner delivered to Alexander Cohen, in the State of Montana, a life insurance policy for $3000, conditioned upon the annual payment of a premium of $89.61. Upon it the insured paid premiums up to and including June 10, 1892. No subsequent premiums were paid. On September 21, 1897, he died. His wife, Tine Cohen, was the beneficiary named in the policy. The application commenced in these words: “Application for insurance in the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 140 to 146 Broadway, corner of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Phinney, 178 U. S. 327, was'an action against the same insurance company, in the same district, on a policy like the one in controversy here, save that in that the insured was himself the beneficiary. It resulted in a judgment in the Circuit Court against the company. Thereupon the company sought to transfer it by writ of error to the Court of Appeals of that circuit, but that court dismissed the writ of error. Thereafter, on April 19, 1897, a certiorari was issued by this court. 166 U. S. 721. On examination we held .that the Court of Appeals erred in…
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