Wilkinson v. Cosmopolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in debt. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon.1, R. S. Fabbakt, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1909. Statement by the Court.
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Action in debt. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Stephenson county; the Hon.1, R. S. Fabbakt, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1909. Statement by the Court. In August, 1899, the Boyal Tribe of Joseph, a fraternal beneficiary association, organized under the laws of the state of Missouri, doing business in that and other states, issued to Robert S. Wilkinson, of Weeping Water, Nebraska, a certificate of membership by the terms of which Wilkinson was to pay a certain sum monthly during his lifetime, and at his death his widow was to receive the sum of $1,000. In 1903,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
Each replication attempts to answer all the pleas of the defendant. The first and sixth replications attempt to traverse the pleas. The second, third, fourth and fifth replications set up a section of the statute of Nebraska, providing what acts by a party shall constitute such party an agent of an insurance company in Nebraska, with an averment that summons was served on one W. B. Cross in Cass county, Nebraska, and with averments that said Cross had done and was doing certain things in Nebraska for said defendant, whereby, by virtue of said statute, he was the agent of the defendant.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Cropsey v. WiggenhornNebraska Supreme Court · 1873
- Bucklin v. StricklerNebraska Supreme Court · 1891
- Britton v. ChamberlainIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
- Firemen's Insurance v. ThompsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- McKillip v. HarveyNebraska Supreme Court · 1907
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