New York Life Ins. v. Hendren
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an action of assumpsit in the Corporation court of the city of Norfolk, brought in April 1870, by Henrietta Hendren, against the New York Life Insurance Company, to recover the sum of $>5,000, the amount insured by the said company upon the life of her husband William T. Hendren, for her benefit. The defendant demurred to the declaration, and the joined in the demurrer, and the defendant also pleaded non assumpsit, and had leave to file special pleas.
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This was an action of assumpsit in the Corporation court of the city of Norfolk, brought in April 1870, by Henrietta Hendren, against the New York Life Insurance Company, to recover the sum of $>5,000, the amount insured by the said company upon the life of her husband William T. Hendren, for her benefit. The defendant demurred to the declaration, and the joined in the demurrer, and the defendant also pleaded non assumpsit, and had leave to file special pleas. At the February term of the court the demurrer was overruled; and the defendant filed seven additional pleas; but it is unnecessary to…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
It is now settled by the decisions of this court, in Manhattan Life Insurance Company v. Warwick, 20 Gratt., 614; and in the recent case of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company v. Atwood’s adm’x (not yet reported); and also by the decision of the Special court of appeals, in New York Life Insurance Company v. White; the Ins. L. Journal for Dec. 1873, p. 917, that contracts of life insurance entered into before the late war are not abrogated, but only suspended by the war. And with these Virginia decisions the highest judicial tribunals of the States of Kentucky, New York, New Jersey and…
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