Curtis v. Mutual Benefit Life Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
' Assumpsit upon a certificate of membership in a mutual life insurance company; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried to the jury before Beardsley, J. The jury having returned a verdict for the plaintiff the defendants filed a motion in arrest of judgment for the insufficiency of the declaration, which being overruled they brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The declaration in this case consists of a single count, upon a certificate of membership commonly called a policy of insurance, issued by the defendants, in which the latter agreed that “ upon the death of Esther M. Curtis,” (the wife of the plaintiff), “she having conformed to all the conditions thereof, and on satisfactory proof of her death being filed with the secretary of the said company, an assessment for as many dollars as there are policy-holders in this company who have become such under this plan, shall be made upon all- such policy-holders, according to the rate and proportion of…
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