Insurance Co. v. Rodel
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This ivas an action on a policy, issued by the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, upon the life of Emil G. Rodel, for the benefit of his wife, the plaintiff .below.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This ivas an action on a policy, issued by the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, upon the life of Emil G. Rodel, for the benefit of his wife, the plaintiff .below. The policy was dated June 25, 1878, and contained a promise to pay to the plaintiff, “for her sole and separate use and benefit, ninety days aftei due notice and satisfactory evidence of the death of the said Emil G. Rodel and of the just claim of the assuied (or proof of interest, if assigned or held as security), under this policy, has been…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Bradley,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.-
We think there was no error in the ruling of the court below admitting evidence of the proofs of death, which had been served on the defendant. Of course, the. company could not justly contend that it might arbitrarily object to the sufficiency of the proofs; but it had an ufidoubted right to demand and insist upon such proofs as the law would adjudge to be reasonable and satisfactory. "The objection to those furnished ivas, that, whilst otherwise sufficient as proofs' of the death of the insured, they disclosed…
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