Manhattan Life Insurance v. Broughton
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE" SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE NEW YORK. The main, facts in this case are stated in the opinion of the court.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE" SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE NEW YORK. The main, facts in this case are stated in the opinion of the court. For the .purposes of the reported argument below it is sufficient to say that the plaintiffs in error insured the life of ■one Ferguson for. $10,000, payable to Ms wife in Mnety days after proof of Ms death ;• that the policy was to be void if Ferguson should die by smcide; that Ferguson hanged himself; that suit was brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the City of New York by the widow to recover on the policy, in which under a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This is an action brought on the 9th of June, 1879, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York by John G. Broughton, a citizen of Bloomfield, in the State of New Jersey, against a corporation established in the city and State of New York, upon a policy of insurance in the sum of $10,000 on the life of Israel Ferguson, of New York, dated the 15th of June, 1864, made and payable to his wife, and containing a condition that it should be null and- void “ in case he shall die -by suicide, or by the hands of justice, or in consequence of a duel, or of the…
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