Graham v. Security Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. This was an action brought on a policy of life insurance providing for the payment to the plaintiff of $10,000 upon receipt of satisfactory proofs of the death of the insured, Theodore Y. Kinne.
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On error to the Supreme Court. This was an action brought on a policy of life insurance providing for the payment to the plaintiff of $10,000 upon receipt of satisfactory proofs of the death of the insured, Theodore Y. Kinne. At the trial at the Passaic Circuit, before Mr. Justice Pitney and a jury, he denied the defendant’s motion to nonsuit, and on due submission of the case to the jury a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $9,951.30. The policy was issued on or about November 1.6th, 1903, and bore date August 17th, 1903. The first annual premium thereon amounted to $429.60.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered bjr
Vroom, J.
The assignments of error are six in number, the first being to the refusal of the court to grant the motion for a nonsuit at the close of the plaintiff’s case, and the remaining assignments were based upon the charge of the judge.
The first assignment was principally relied upon by the plaintiff in error in the presentation of the case before this court. It was as follows: “That at the close of the plaintiff’s case the court before whom * * * refused to grant this motion for a nonsuit made by the said defendant upon the ground that the policy-…
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