Jones v. New York Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon a policy of insurance for $2,000, issued by the defendant on the life of William A. Jones, the plaintiff’s intestate. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Q-askill, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in September, 1896, and afterwards was submitted on briefs to all the justices.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
1. The presiding justice could properly exclude the question put by the defendant’s counsel to the plaintiff, whom he had called as a witness, whether, as a matter of fact, she made objection to her husband to his taking the policy declared on. Proof that she objected in a preliminary conversation would have no tendency to prove that he did or did not afterward take the policy. Besides, the question called for a communication made by a wife to her husband, and it was not so framed as to exclude private conversations.
^ 2. The testimony of the witnesses Davis, Curtis, and Dr. Sawyer to…
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