New York Life Ins. v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa; Page Morris, Judge. Action at law by Isabel H. Johnson against the New York Life Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
TRIEBER, District Judge.
The defendant in error, plaintiff in the court below, instituted this action to recover on a policy of life insurance for $3,000 issued by the plaintiff in error on the life of her husband, alleged to be dead. The prayer of the complaint is that the plaintiff have judgment for the sum of $4,080, but there are no allegations in the complaint which will justify a recovery for a greater amount than the face of the policy, unless it be interest which had accumulated from the time of the alleged death of the assured until this :iction was instituted. The policy which is the…
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