Barbour v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of two policies of life insurance ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. On motion of the defendant, Hannah Masters was cited in as a co-defendant, to interplead with the plaintiff as to the right to the money in question, and the case was made one of interpleader between the plaintiff and the said Hannah.
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Action to recover the amount of two policies of life insurance ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. On motion of the defendant, Hannah Masters was cited in as a co-defendant, to interplead with the plaintiff as to the right to the money in question, and the case was made one of interpleader between the plaintiff and the said Hannah. The case was heard before Fenn, J., who found the issue for the said Hannah! and rendered a judgment that the life insurance company should pay the money to her. The plaintiff appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtJ. M. Hall, J.
The finding in this case shows that Arthur W. Masters, a trader in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, on July 2d, 1870, took out two policies of insurance- upon his life in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, each for the sum of $2,500, and payable to his legal representatives upon his death. One of the policies was a ten payment life policy, upon which an annual premium of $206.53, less dividends, was to be paid for ten years, and the other was an ordinary life policy requiring an annual payment of $128.83, less dividends. The premiums on each of these…
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