Bond v. Bunting
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 136, to July Term 1873. This proceeding was commenced August 27th 1872, in an action of assumpsit, by Martha W. Bond against the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, on a policy of insurance, not under seal, dated January 26 th 1870, issued by the defendants to Mrs. Bond, the plaintiff; the insurance ivas for $10,000, on the life of her husband, John R. Bond,'payable to her in ninety days, after due notice to the defendants…
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 136, to July Term 1873. This proceeding was commenced August 27th 1872, in an action of assumpsit, by Martha W. Bond against the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, on a policy of insurance, not under seal, dated January 26 th 1870, issued by the defendants to Mrs. Bond, the plaintiff; the insurance ivas for $10,000, on the life of her husband, John R. Bond,'payable to her in ninety days, after due notice to the defendants of the death of the husband. On the 28th of December 1871, a paper was executed, purporting to be under the hands and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
*218The verdict of the jury on the questions submitted to them in the feigned issue, leaves nothing to be reviewed but the points discussed in the able opinion of the learned president of the court on the motion for judgment. ,
It is not easy to reconcile Kennedy v. Ware, 1 Barr 445, with the subsequent case of Licey v. Licey, 7 Barr 251, in which it was held that delivery of a bond to a stranger passed the right to the debt as a gift. Chief Justice Gibson is reported in the ,latter case to have remarked, when Kennedy v. Ware was cited, “ there is a distinction between a gift and an assignment;…
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