Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. New York & New Haven Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case, brought by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, against the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, demanding three thousand dollars damages. The declaration embraced three counts.
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This was an action on the case, brought by the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, against the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, demanding three thousand dollars damages. The declaration embraced three counts. The first count contained an allegation, that on the 20th day of March 1850, the defendants, for the consideration of eighty-three dollars and fifty cents, executed and delivered to Samuel Beach of Bridgeport,- a policy of insurance upon his life, for two thousand dollars. After setting out the policy, and alleging that the defendants, on the 6th day of May 1853, were the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The defendants, a railroad company, are charged with having negligently occasioned the death of-one Hr. Beach, by which event the plaintiffs, a life insurance company, have been compelled to pay to his representatives, the amount of an insurance effected upon his life; of which amount a recovery is sought in this action. A plea in bar sets forth a payment to the administratrix of the deceased of the damages for which' the defendants’ negligence had rendered them legally liable, and also a discharge by her. This plea and the demurrer thereto require no examination, as they are immaterial in…
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