Arndt v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN, tried before Cline, J., and a jury, at July Term, 1918, of Catawba. The action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the defendant on account of an alleged fraud of the agents of the Greensboro Life Insurance Company.
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ActioN, tried before Cline, J., and a jury, at July Term, 1918, of Catawba. The action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages of the defendant on account of an alleged fraud of the agents of the Greensboro Life Insurance Company. Plaintiff alleged that in December, 1906, the agents of the Greensboro Life Insurance Company induced him to apply for a policy of life insurance for $1,000 by making the following false representations: (1) That after carrying a policy for two years, if he should become dissatisfied with it, he would have the option to make surrender of same and receive…
1Opinion of the Court
WalkeR, J.,
after stating the ease: First. This assignment of error is based upon the refusal of the court to admit in evidence the letter of another person to the company, which purported to have been sent by D. W. Cochrane to the plaintiff, and is untenable for two reasons: First, it was not identified. Plaintiff did not attempt to prove the *655signature of D. W. Oocbrane, by wboxn tbe letter purports to have been written, but merely offered tbe letter in evidence without any proof of its genuineness. Letters are not admissible until satisfactory proof bas first been made of tbeir autbenticity.…
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