Keller v. North American Life Insurance
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Oscar E. Heard, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matchett
Plaintiff below sued the defendant insurance company upon three policies issued and delivered by the defendant on December 30,1911. The policies are for the aggregate amount of $80,000 payable by their terms to the executrix or administratrix of the estate of Eudolph C. Keller, whose death occurred May 15, 1915. The case was tried by the court, without a jury, and the facts are practically undisputed.
The insurance as originally issued was in the form of two policies for the sum of $50,000 and $30,000, respectively. The $30,000 policy was afterwards split into two policies of $20,000 and…
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