Hartford Life Ins. Co. v. Benson
Court of Appeals of Texas
Error from District Court, Tom Green County; J. W. Timmins, Judge. Action by Mrs. Ora Benson against the Hartford Life Insurance Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
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Error from District Court, Tom Green County; J. W. Timmins, Judge. Action by Mrs. Ora Benson against the Hartford Life Insurance Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Plaintiffs in error’s brief contains the following correct statement of the nature and result of this suit, and the facts relied on for a reversal: “This suit was brought by Mrs. Ora Benson to recover from the Hartford Life Insurance Company and the Missouri State Life Insurance Company on a policy for $2,000 issued by the first-mentioned company on the life of her husband. The plaintiff sought…
1Opinion of the CourtKey, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The controlling question involved in the appeal is the validity of the agreement between the insurance company, on the one side, and the insured and beneficiary named in the policy, on the other side, embodied in the loan note, by which it was stipulated that, if the note should remain unpaid 30 days after maturity and demand, or if any interest payment remained unpaid 30 days after maturity, etc., the amount of paid-up insurance guaranteed in the policy should be reduced in the same proportion as the indebtedness bore to the cash surrender value, and…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Cheeves v. Anders, AdministratorTexas Supreme Court · 1894
- Palmer v. Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
- Rye v. New York Life InsuranceNebraska Supreme Court · 1911
- Eagle v. New York Life InsuranceIndiana Court of Appeals · 1910
- Sherman v. Mutual Life InsuranceWashington Supreme Court · 1909
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Travelers' Ins. Co. v. LazenbyAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918
- Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. BancroftSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
- Hammond v. Volunteer State Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1933
- Travelers' Ins. Co. v. LazenbyAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918