Legal Opinion
Moore v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 21, 1906PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is an action of contract on a policy of life insurance issued to Walter T. Moore on May 27, 1904, by a foreign corporation doing business here, under an agent duly authorized, and the policy was delivered here. Both parties have argued the case on the assumption that the policy is a Massachusetts contract, and we so treat'it.
On July 29, 1904, Walter T. Moore, by virtue'of the power reserved to him in the policy, assigned the same to his wife Faustina M. Moore, the plaintiff in this action.
The answer contained a general denial and set up in defence that Walter T. Moore died by his own…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Travellers' Insurance v. McConkeySupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Bigelow v. Berkshire Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Daniels v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- De Gogorza v. . Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Pierce v. Travelers' Life Insurance Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
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3Cited by12 opinions
- New York Life Insurance v. HardisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Aetna Life Insurance Company v. McLaughlinTexas Supreme Court · 1964
- Donna Joan Zogg v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Nielsen v. Provident Life & Accident InsuranceIdaho Supreme Court · 1979
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. BlumCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1919
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