Relfe v. Columbia Life Insurance
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Thayer, J. Original policy-holders of the De Soto, Atlas, Missouri, and St. Louis Mutual, can claim the benefit of a deposit made by the Columbia, only by ratifying the transfer made by their companies to the Columbia, which ratification operates as a novation of the contract of insurance, and makes those who so ratify policyholders of the Columbia. — In re Times Life, etc., Go., 5 Ch. App. 396 ; Spencer’s Gase, 6 Ch. App. 371;…
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Thayer, J. Original policy-holders of the De Soto, Atlas, Missouri, and St. Louis Mutual, can claim the benefit of a deposit made by the Columbia, only by ratifying the transfer made by their companies to the Columbia, which ratification operates as a novation of the contract of insurance, and makes those who so ratify policyholders of the Columbia. — In re Times Life, etc., Go., 5 Ch. App. 396 ; Spencer’s Gase, 6 Ch. App. 371; Miller’s Gase, 3 Reporter, 302 ; Henning v. United States Ins. Go., 47 Mo. 425; s. c. 2 Dill. 26. But such ratification and…
1Opinion of the CourtBakewell, J.
The Mound City Life Insurance Company, on February 19, 1874, chauged its name to the “ St. Louis Life Insurance Company,” and on January 28, 1876, again changed its name to the “Columbia Life Insurance Company.” The name by which it is called is unimportant; the company remained the same. For the purposes of this opinion the company will be spoken of throughout by the name which it last assumed, and which it now holds.
In the cause whose title is set out above, the Circuit Court is administering, through- its receiver, the assets of the Columbia Life Insurance Company. The assets of the Atlas,…
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