Griffith v. N.Y. Life Ins. Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County, and from an order denying a new trial. The policies referred to in the opinion were procured from E. J. Griffith, the husband of the plaintiff, on or about the 1st of June, 1889, by J. D. Mouser, as a soliciting agent for the state agents of the New York Life Insurance Company, under an agreement that Griffith should deliver to said J. D. Mouser his two certain promissory notes for the sum of $449 each, payable…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Fresno County, and from an order denying a new trial. The policies referred to in the opinion were procured from E. J. Griffith, the husband of the plaintiff, on or about the 1st of June, 1889, by J. D. Mouser, as a soliciting agent for the state agents of the New York Life Insurance Company, under an agreement that Griffith should deliver to said J. D. Mouser his two certain promissory notes for the sum of $449 each, payable six months after date, for the first annual premium for the insurance, amounting in the aggregate to $898. The two…
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.—
This is an action by the appellant, as plaintiff, to recover from the defendant and respondent twenty thousand dollars, interests and costs, upon two twenty-year endowment policies of insurance averred to have been issued by the defendant, an insurance company, for ten thousand dollars each, to and upon the life of E. J. Griffith, loss, if any, payable to his wife, Mary V. Griffith, or in case of her death to the representatives or assigns of the insured, and in the event of his *635survival for the period of twenty years to him, the said Griffith. Griffith died within two years after…
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