Smith v. Northwestern National Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Dane county: Wakeew D. Tabeant, Judge. .For a number of years prior to 1893 there had existed a mutual insurance assessment company under the laws of Wisconsin, known as the Northwestern Mutual Relief Association of Madison, Wisconsin, hereinafter called the “Madison Company.”
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Dane county: Wakeew D. Tabeant, Judge. .For a number of years prior to 1893 there had existed a mutual insurance assessment company under the laws of Wisconsin, known as the Northwestern Mutual Relief Association of Madison, Wisconsin, hereinafter called the “Madison Company.” That company reorganized under the provisions of ch. 440, Laws of 1891, and while so existing issued to the plaintiff its policy or certificate of membership dated February 24, 1893, agreeing, among other things, that upon January 18, 1902, he being then alive, they would…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The Madison Company entered into an agreement with plaintiff that, if he paid the specified assessments as called for up to January, 1902, it would pay him the amount of $2,000, provided .eighty per cent, of an assessment, at the specified rates, on all its members, would produce that *593amount. Plaintiff bas performed bis part of tbe agreement, and defendant now contends, and tbe trial court bas beld, that be must be satisfied to receive tbe amount of an assessment on only about one tenth of all tbe members. Tbe inquiry is at once suggested, wbat bas occurred to accomplish such modification ?…
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