Chapin v. Fellowes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Amicable submission to the Superior Court in Hartford county, on the following agreed statement of facts: On the 20th of January, 1848, Sarah W. Chapin, of the city of New York, wife of Humiston Chapin, made a written application to the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, for a policy of insurance upon the life of her husband, then about thirty-five years of age, in the sum of $8,000, for the whole term of his life.
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Amicable submission to the Superior Court in Hartford county, on the following agreed statement of facts: On the 20th of January, 1848, Sarah W. Chapin, of the city of New York, wife of Humiston Chapin, made a written application to the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, for a policy of insurance upon the life of her husband, then about thirty-five years of age, in the sum of $8,000, for the whole term of his life. On this application the insurance company issued a policy, being No. T98, bearing date the 21st day of January, 1848, whereby, in consideration of…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, C. J.
In the case of The Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Burroughs and others, 34 Conn. R., 305, we held that a policy of insurance on the life of a husband, payable to the wife for her sole use, and in case of her death before her husband’s to be paid to her children, was not assignable by her so as to defeat the interest of her children which subsequently to such assignment became absolute by the death of their mother and the death of the husband. The plain reason for the decision is, that as the charter of the insurance company and the statutes of the state authorized such insurance…
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