Meggett v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Dane-county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action to determine the ownership of the proceeds of an insurance policy. On December 13, 1864, the defendant company issued a policy of insurance upon the life of Alexander Meggett. The complaint alleges that Mary H. T. Meggett, a daughter of the insured, paid the first premium.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Dane-county: E. Ray SteveNS, Circuit Judge. Tbis is an action to determine the ownership of the proceeds of an insurance policy. On December 13, 1864, the defendant company issued a policy of insurance upon the life of Alexander Meggett. The complaint alleges that Mary H. T. Meggett, a daughter of the insured, paid the first premium. The policy provided that the premiums-should be paid in ten annual payments and that the policy should mature at Alexander Meggett’s death. October' 6,. 1873, Mary H. T. Meggett, then a single woman twenty-two-years…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
The allegations of the complaint set forth the contract and the assignment by which the rights to the proceeds of the policy are established. It appears therefrom *639that the policy called for the payment of ten. annual premiums •during the first ten years after its issue and was to mature •at the death of Alexander Meggett, the insured. The assignment by Mary to her stepmother, Sarah Meggett, was assented to by the insured, was made October 6, 1873, and was based on a valuable consideration. She thereby “granted, assigned, transferred, and set over . . . unto the said Sarah A. Meg-,gett, her…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Opitz v. KarelWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
- Clark v. DurandWisconsin Supreme Court · 1860
- Rawson v. Milwaukee Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
- Slocum v. Northwestern National Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
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