Monast v. Manhattan Life Insurance Co.

This is an action on the case in assumpsit for money had and received, brought for the purpose of recovering back certain premiums alleged to have been paid by the plaintiff to the defendant on two policies of life insurance on the life of Arthur J. Marchant, the plaintiff’s nephew by marriage. It was tried before a judge of the Superior Court for the counties of Providence and Bristol, sitting without a jury, on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1909, and the ninth and tenth days of March, 1910. By a rescript filed a few days after the trial was finished, the judge decided that the plaintiff…