Legal Opinion

Harrington v. Mutual Life Insurance

North Dakota Supreme Court

Decided April 21, 1911PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Templeton, J. Action by Hattie E. Harrington against tbe Mutual Life Insurance '•Company of New York. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The policy evidences the contents. New York L. Ins. Co. v. McMaster, 30 C. C. A. 532, 57 U. S. App. 638, 87 Fed. 63; McMaster v. New York L. Ins. Co. 40 C. C. A. 119, 99 Fed. 856; Logan v. Provident Sav. Life Assur.

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Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Templeton, J. Action by Hattie E. Harrington against tbe Mutual Life Insurance '•Company of New York. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The policy evidences the contents. New York L. Ins. Co. v. McMaster, 30 C. C. A. 532, 57 U. S. App. 638, 87 Fed. 63; McMaster v. New York L. Ins. Co. 40 C. C. A. 119, 99 Fed. 856; Logan v. Provident Sav. Life Assur. Soc. 57 W. Ya. 384, 50 S. E. 529; Hutson v. Jenson, 110 Wis. 26, 85 N. W. 689. The word “issued” as applied to the policy means the beginning of Ucontractual relations under it. Coley v.…

1Opinion of the Court

Burr, District Judge.

This action involves a question of the liability of the defendant herein upon a life insurance policy issued by the defendant to one Charles E. Rich, in which policy the plaintiff herein is named as beneficiary. The policy is dated May 9th, 1908,, and is in the sum of $1,000. It is not necessary to set forth the pleadings in detail, as almost all of the facts are admitted by the parties. The answer of the defendant, however, in three paragraphs thereof,, sets forth statements which the trial court failed to find as facts in this-case, which failure is assigned as error.…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. City of Davenport v. Peoria Marine & Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1864
  3. Lightbody v. North American InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1840
  4. Niagara Fire Insurance v. ScammonIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  5. Rayburn v. . Casualty Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
  2. Anderson v. Mut. Life Ins. Co. of N.Y.California Supreme Court · 1913
  3. Horwitz v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
  4. Mutual Life Ins. v. Hurni Packing Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1922
  5. Donahue v. Mutual Life InsuranceNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1917

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