Cable v. United States Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEARS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This ■ case comes here upon certiorari, applied for by the petitioner, who was the administratrix of the estate of Herman D. Cable, deceased. 186 U. S. 482. The suit was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois by complainant, The United States Life Insurance Company, of the city of New York and a citizen of •that State, against Alice A. Cable, a citizen of the…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEARS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. This ■ case comes here upon certiorari, applied for by the petitioner, who was the administratrix of the estate of Herman D. Cable, deceased. 186 U. S. 482. The suit was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois by complainant, The United States Life Insurance Company, of the city of New York and a citizen of •that State, against Alice A. Cable, a citizen of the State of Illinois,'to have a certain policy of insurance for $50,000, payable as therein stated, upon the life of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pecicham
It is contended, upon the part of the administratrix of the estate of the assured, that the court below had no jurisdiction on the ground that there existed a complete and adequate remedy '(or defence) at law when the company was sued upon the policy, and that the effect of allowing this jurisdiction in the Circuit Court is to improperly deprive the defendant herein of a trial by jury.
It is conceded by the plaintiff in error that no cause of action existed in favor of the complainant herein upon the law side of the Federal court, the contention being that the company could set up, as a…
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