Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n v. Beatty
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This is an action at law brought by George W. Beatty, defendant in error (plaintiff below), as beneficiary in a certain certificate or contract of insurance issued by the plaintiff in error on the life of Edwin L. Smith, of San Francisco, Cal.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This is an action at law brought by George W. Beatty, defendant in error (plaintiff below), as beneficiary in a certain certificate or contract of insurance issued by the plaintiff in error on the life of Edwin L. Smith, of San Francisco, Cal. It is alleged in the complaint “that on the 15t.h day of May, 1884, at the city of New York, state of New York, said defendant made and issued its certificate of membership to one Edwin L. Smith, of the city and county of San Francisco, state of California, in…
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). There are 28 assignments of error, and 17 specifications of error in support of one of these assignments, making 44 separate and distinct grounds which the plaintiff in error has assigned for a reversal of the judgment in favor of the defendant in error by the court below. The assignments of error relate to the admission of testimony over the objections of the plaintiff in error, the refusal of the court to instruct the jury as requested by the plaintiff in error, and the giving of instructions by the court to the jury over the objections of the plaintiff…
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