Sands v. . N.Y. Life Insurance Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the report of a referee and granting a new trial. (Reported below, 59 Barb., 556.) This action was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of a policy of life insurance.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the report of a referee and granting a new trial. (Reported below, 59 Barb., 556.) This action was brought by the plaintiff as assignee of a policy of life insurance. The defendant issued to James Sands, of Mobile, a life policy for $5,000 on his life, dated January 28,1850, in which the annual premium was fixed at $160, payable on the 18th of January in each year. The annual premiums were paid to James M. Muldon, the defendant’s agent at Mobile,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeckham, J.
Action to recover the amount of a policy of insurance issued by defendant to the husband of the plaintiff on the 28th of January, 1850, then a resident of Mobile, in-Alabama; whereby, in consideration of $160 then paid, and of the annual payment thereafter of a like sum during the continuance of the policy, the defendant agreed to insure him in the sum of $5,000 “for the term of his natural life.” Sands died at Mobile in July, 1862..
It is admitted that all premiums were paid on the policy up to January, 1862; and it is proved and found that the premium due in January, 1862, was paid to one…
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