Rogers v. Charter Oak Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury on the general issue before Granger, J. On the trial the plaintiff laid in a policy of insurance, duly executed by the company and countersigned by D. A. Keyes as agent, on the life of Charles B. Crofut, of whose estate the plaintiff was administrator, for the sum of $2,000.. He also proved the death of the insured.
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Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury on the general issue before Granger, J. On the trial the plaintiff laid in a policy of insurance, duly executed by the company and countersigned by D. A. Keyes as agent, on the life of Charles B. Crofut, of whose estate the plaintiff was administrator, for the sum of $2,000.. He also proved the death of the insured. The policy contained the following provisions :—“ But the same shall not be binding on the company until countersigned by D. A. Keyes, of Norfolk, Conn., and the…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The motion for a non-suit in this case we think was properly allowed; we see no good cause for setting it aside.
We reach this result without deciding several of the questions which have been elaborately argued at the bar. As the evidence offered by the plaintiff was wholly in depositions, and as they are made part of the record, the question is presented to us precisely as it was presented to the court below. Taking the whole evidence together, we think it appears that no contract of insurance was ever completed and consummated between the plaintiff’s intestate and the defendants. Our…
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