Pratt v. Manhattan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. The defendant company issued to Dr. Samuel Logan two policies of insurance, one for the sum of five thousand dollars, and the other for sixty-seven dollars; the terms of both being substantially alike.
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PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. The defendant company issued to Dr. Samuel Logan two policies of insurance, one for the sum of five thousand dollars, and the other for sixty-seven dollars; the terms of both being substantially alike. In each it was declared that “the company promised and agreed to and with the assured, his executors, administrators or assigns, well and truly to pay, or to cause to be paid to the said assured, his executors, administrators or assigns, within ninety days after due notice and satisfactory evidence of the death of said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the couit was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
Only two questions are submitted to us by the appellant.
It insists, first, that the policies declared on having been made payable “ to the assured, his administrators or assigns,” it has the right to insist that an administrator should be appointed to the succession of Samuel Logan, to whom it can make payment, claiming that a payment to plaintiffs in this suit would not give to it the absolute protection which it was entitled to have under its contract; and, second, that if plaintiffs be entitled to a judgment, interest is recoverable…
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