Sterritt v. Manhattan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Louis S.- Sterritt and another, as executors, etc., of David Beveridge, deceased, and by the defendant Frances R. Emerson, from a judgment of the '.Supreme Court in favor of the defendant Martin L. Lee, as administrator, etc., of Marion Beveridge, deceased, entered in the office of the clerk of the ■county of New York on the 11th.day of August, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, adjudging that…
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Appeal by the plaintiffs, Louis S.- Sterritt and another, as executors, etc., of David Beveridge, deceased, and by the defendant Frances R. Emerson, from a judgment of the '.Supreme Court in favor of the defendant Martin L. Lee, as administrator, etc., of Marion Beveridge, deceased, entered in the office of the clerk of the ■county of New York on the 11th.day of August, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, adjudging that the defendant Martin L. Lee, as administrator, etc., of Marion .Beveridge, deceased, is entitled to the policy of…
1Opinion of the Court
*600Judgment affirmed, with costs, on the opinion of Chase, J., at Special Term.
All concurred.
The following is the opinion of Chase, J., at Special Term :
Chase, J. :
The policy in question was issued by the Manhattan Life Insurance Company on the llth day of April, 1868, and among other things provides : “ That the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, in consideration of the sum of one hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents to them in hand paid by Mrs. Marion Beveridge, * * *■ do assure the life of David Beveridge of New York * * * in the amount of Five thousand dollars, for the term of-his…
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