National Life Ass'n v. Berkeley
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton, rendered April 7, 1899, in ttvo- motions for judgments heard together, by consent, in which the defendants in error respectively were the plaintiffs, and in each of which the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton, rendered April 7, 1899, in ttvo- motions for judgments heard together, by consent, in which the defendants in error respectively were the plaintiffs, and in each of which the plaintiff in error was the defendant. One of these motions was in the name of Robert Spotswood Berkeley against the plaintiff in error, on a policy for $1,000 on the life of E. B. Berkeley; and the other in the names of Erancis B. Berkeley and Edmund Carter Berkeley on a like policy for $2,000 on the same life. By agreement of the parties the two cases…
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The policies for $2,000 and $1,000, respectively, involved in this controversy were originally issued upon the life of E. B. Berkeley by the Valley Mutual Life Association, of Staunton, Va. This company having failed, its subsisting insurance, including the policies in question, was transferred to the plaintiff in error, the ETational Life Association of Hartford. In lieu of the original Valley Mutual policies, the plaintiff in error issued to the insured the two policies involved herein. These latter policies were on their faces like the originals, for $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. As…
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