Boyle v. Northwestern Mutual Relief Ass'n
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment qf the circuit court for La Fay-ette county: Gteo. ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought on a certificate of membership-issued by the defendant to Bridget Boyle, April 16, 1892,. for the benefit of the plaintiffs, in the sum of $1,000, on her application dated April 1, 1892. The assured died on the-27th of April, 1892. The complaint contained the usual allegations that the plaintiffs had presented proofs of such, death and offered to…
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Appeal from a judgment qf the circuit court for La Fay-ette county: Gteo. ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. This action was brought on a certificate of membership-issued by the defendant to Bridget Boyle, April 16, 1892,. for the benefit of the plaintiffs, in the sum of $1,000, on her application dated April 1, 1892. The assured died on the-27th of April, 1892. The complaint contained the usual allegations that the plaintiffs had presented proofs of such, death and offered to surrender said policy, and that the assessment had been made and collected by the defendant to-pay said loss, and that in…
1Opinion of the CourtPiNNEY, J.
1. The deceased, in her application for membership, in answer to the question, “ Are you now in sound-*317health ? ” answered “ Yes,” and by the terms of her application she “ covenanted and warranted all the foregoing answers and statements,” including the one in question, “ to be full, complete, and true, and that this written application, •and the truth thereof, shall be the basis of my rights of membership” in the defendant association; and on her certificate the condition was indorsed, that it was “ issued and •delivered in consideration and on the faith that the application” made by her “is…
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