Scarth v. Security Mutual Life Society
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Court. — Hon. J. K. Johnson, Judge.' Action on a life insurance policy. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
— I. It appears from the averments of the petition that on the fifth day of December, 1885, the defendant issued to Francis O. Scarth a policy of insurance upon his life, or a beneficiary certificate, in the amount of three thousand dollars, and that until the twenty-eighth of February, 1886, he complied with all the conditions and agreements contained in said contract of insurance, when he died ; and that the plaintiffs are the beneficiaries named in said policy. The manner of the death of the insured is stated in the petition in these words : “That on the twenty-eighth day of February, A..…
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