Lesem v. Mutual Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of January, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6 th day of January, 1914, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Present—Ingraham, P. J., Laughlin, Scott, Dowling and Hotchkiss, JJ.
The following is the opinion of the court below:
Greenbaum, J.:
This is an action to recover on a policy of life insurance for $10,000 issued by defendant upon the life of Solomon J. Lesem *508and payable to the plaintiff, his wife. Solomon J. Lesem, the insured, died on the 9th day of March, 1911, at Worms, Germany. In the year 1902, owing to the ill health of the insured, he and his wife left the United States to sojourn at health resorts in the Empire of Germany, having first secured from the defendant h written waiver of the…
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- Dannhauser v. . WallensteinNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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