Cronin v. Vermont Life Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Assumpsit on a policy of insurance issued upon the life of the plaintiff’s niece.
1Opinion of the CourtStiness, J.
This action is brought to recover insurance on the life of the plaintiff’s niece, and the main question raised by the defendant to the declaration is whether the plaintiff had an insurable interest in the life of her niece.
The English act of 1771, 11 Geo. Ill, c. 18, § 1, prohibited insurance on the life of a person in which the beneficiary shall have no interest, or by, way of gaming or wagering.
Although the statute has never been taken as a part of our law, its rule was generally followed in this country, as declaratory of the common law. But in defining the term “interest,” the tendency of…
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