Thompson v. Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. This was an action on á policy of insurance for $5,000, issued by the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, the defendant in error, on the life of John Y. Thompson, for the benefit of •Ms wife, Ruth E. Thompson, the plaintiff in ei'ror. .The policy bore date Jan. 21, 1870, and was to continue during his life, in consideration of an annual premium of $410.20, payable on or before the…
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. This was an action on á policy of insurance for $5,000, issued by the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, the defendant in error, on the life of John Y. Thompson, for the benefit of •Ms wife, Ruth E. Thompson, the plaintiff in ei'ror. .The policy bore date Jan. 21, 1870, and was to continue during his life, in consideration of an annual premium of $410.20, payable on or before the twenty-fourth day of January in every year. He died Nov. 8, 1874. The complaint was in the usual form, setting forth the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Beadley
The questions presented for review in. this case arise on the rulings of the court below on the demurrers of the defendant. .
It appears from the special pleas that the policy contained the usual condition that it should become void if the. annual' premiums should not be paid on the day1 when they severally became due, or if any notes given in payment-"of premiupis ■ should not be paid at maturity.
The replications do not pretend that the note given for premium, which became due'on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1874, was ever paid, or that payment thereof was ever tendered, either during…
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