Johnson v. Northwestern Mutual Life Ins.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by the defendant, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Seagrave Smith, J., made August 16, 1893, overruling its demurrer to the complaint.
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Appeal by the defendant, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Seagrave Smith, J., made August 16, 1893, overruling its demurrer to the complaint. On October 25, 1888, the defendant insured the life of the plaintiff, Martin C. Johnson, then of Stoughton, Wis., in the sum of $1,000. By its policy it agreed to pay him that sum twenty years thereafter, or in case of his death meantime to pay it to his representatives or assigns sixty days after due proof of his decease. After ten years he was to share in the surplus profits of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
On the 25th day of October, 1888, the plaintiff, Johnson, who was then a minor, seventeen years old, obtained a policy of insurance on his own life in the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, this defendant, for the sum of $1,000, in consideration of the payment by him of the premium of $23.29, and the semiannual payment of a like sum to defendant on or before noon of the 25th days of October and April thereafter in each and every year during the continuance of the policy, viz. for 20 years. He made eight semiannual payments amounting to the total sum of $186.32, and immediately…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Conrad v. LaneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
- Adams v. BeallCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1887
- Miller v. SmithSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1879
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