Richmond v. Conservative Life Insurance Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Orosse. county: E. 0. Higbee, Oircuit Judge. Action to recover for personal services under a written contract made by plaintiff with the Conservative Life Insurance Company April 9, 1903, and afterwards assumed by the defendant the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. The defense was that the contract was an illegal contract in that it was in fact a contract for a rebate on a life insurance premium.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Orosse. county: E. 0. Higbee, Oircuit Judge. Action to recover for personal services under a written contract made by plaintiff with the Conservative Life Insurance Company April 9, 1903, and afterwards assumed by the defendant the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. The defense was that the contract was an illegal contract in that it was in fact a contract for a rebate on a life insurance premium. The action was tried by the court, jury trial having been waived, and the court found in effect that the contract was a bona fide contract for…
1Opinion of the CourtWins now, C. J.
\At tbe time of tbe transaction in question sec. 1955o, Stats. 1898, provided as follows:
“No life insurance company doing business in tbis state shall make or permit any distinction or discrimination in *338favor of individuals between insurants of the same class and equal expectation of life in the amount or payment of premiums or rates charged for life or endowment policies, or in. the dividends or other benefits payable thereon or in any other of the terms and conditions of the contract it makes; nor shall any such company or any agent thereof make any contract or agreement as to such contract…
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