Godfrey v. New York Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action to recover the sum of $98.90, expended by plaintiff in paying the promissory note mentioned in the opinion and in defending a suit against her upon that note. From an order of the district court for Rice county, Buckham, J., denying a motion for a new trial after a verdict for plaintiff, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
On November 8, 1894, the plaintiff through one Lucas, an agent of defendant, made an application to defendant for a policy of life insurance on her life payable to her executors, administrators or assigns. The first annual premium on the policy amounted to $83.60 and at the request of Lucas she made to his order her promissory note in writing for that sum, payable in one year from said date. The note was indorsed by her husband and she delivered it to Lucas together with said application. Lucas never turned the note over to the defendant company or accounted to it for the same, but before the…
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