Northwestern Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Gray
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This was an action at law', instituted by Gray against the insurance company, to recover on a matured certificate of membership for S'! ,000 originally (in 1883) issued to him by the Northwestern Mutual Relief Association of Wisconsin.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. This was an action at law', instituted by Gray against the insurance company, to recover on a matured certificate of membership for S'! ,000 originally (in 1883) issued to him by the Northwestern Mutual Relief Association of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin company did business on tho assessment plan, whereby on tbe death of a member an assessment was made upon surviving members to raise a fund to pay the beneficiary of the deceased member, in 1899 it availed itself of the provisions of the act of the Legislature of…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Gray had a contract, made in 1883, consisting of a certificate of membership with the Wisconsin company,.whereby he was obligated to pay certain assessments which might be made by the company on the occasion of the death of his associate members, and to continue doing so until the maturity of his certificate. The company on its part obligated itself to pay Gray in 1906 80 per cent, of an assessment that might be levied and collected upon its members, not exceeding, however, $4,000. To say nothing of the reorganization of the Wisconsin company in 1899,…
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- Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
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- Iversen v. Minnesota Mut. Life InsuranceU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota · 1902
- Smith v. Northwestern National Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905
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