Heubner v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action commenced before justice of the peace. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
délivered the opinion of the court.
The complaint made by defendant of the judgment appealed from in this cause is two-fold:
First: It is claimed that as to the first policy sued on, no right whatever was_shown in the plaintiff, and that therefore it should have been excluded from evidence as immaterial. Of course also, if the plaintiff had no right to recover on it because of a want of connection with it or title in it, the instruction given by the trial judge proprio motu was incorrect, for that instruction stated contingencies on which he was entitled to a verdict.
The other contention of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Spence v. Central Accident InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1908
- Stout v. City Fire Insurance Co. of New HavenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861
- Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. RobertsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Bailey v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. RobinsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
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- Howell v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of BostonNew York Court of Appeals · 1941
- Manning v. Prudential InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1919
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. HightowerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1925
- Tarasowski v. Prudential InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1920
- Bishop v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaAppellate Court of Illinois · 1920
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