Legal Opinion

Salig v. United States Life Insurance

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 13, 1912No. Appeal, No. 154PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal, No. 154, Jan. T., 1912, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Erie Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 17, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Minnie C. Salig, Executrix and Rudolph H. Beers, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Mary H. Dash, deceased, v. United States Life Insurance Company. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance.

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Appeal, No. 154, Jan. T., 1912, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Erie Co., Nov. T., 1910, No. 17, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Minnie C. Salig, Executrix and Rudolph H. Beers, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Mary H. Dash, deceased, v. United States Life Insurance Company. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance. Walling, P. J., filed the following opinion: This is an action by the beneficiary upon a life insurance policy, in which the defense set up is that the policy had been cancelled in the lifetime of the assured on account of the…

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This action was brought on a policy of insurance issued by the appellee. A jury trial was waived, and no one of the seven facts found by the court below is assigned as error. From them, and especially from the sixth, the conclusion was inevitable that the plaintiffs could not recover, and the judgment for the defendant is, therefore, affirmed.

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Carter v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
  2. Hammond v. Volunteer State Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1933
  3. Hartford Life Ins. Co. v. BensonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1916
  4. Adams v. Mutual Life InsuranceIndiana Court of Appeals · 1921
  5. Wilson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936

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