Germania Life Insurance v. Koehler
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of St. Clair county, the Hon. A. S. Wilderman, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun in 1884 by the appellee against the appellant company upon a policy of life insurance, issued on March 21, 1866, at Belleville in St. Clair county, upon the life of one Jacob Kaysing, at that time the husband of appellee.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of St. Clair county, the Hon. A. S. Wilderman, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun in 1884 by the appellee against the appellant company upon a policy of life insurance, issued on March 21, 1866, at Belleville in St. Clair county, upon the life of one Jacob Kaysing, at that time the husband of appellee. The amount of the policy was §2000, payable to Elizabeth Kaysing, then the wife of said Jacob Kaysing. Jacob Kaysing died on September 4, 1876, at Houston in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
Among the errors assigned by the appellant, those mainly relied upon are the giving of the first and second instructions which the trial court gave for the plaintiff, and the refusal of the second instruction which the court was asked to give on behalf of the defendant below. The giving and refusal of these instructions raise the question, whether, under the facts of this case, there was a waiver by the appellant company of the condition in the policy forbidding the insured to visit or reside in the State of Texas at any time during any year from July 1 to November 1. It is claimed by the…
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