Burt v. Union Central Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was an action, to recoyer on a policy of life insurance, commenced in tbe District Court of Travis County, Texas, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. The policy was issued August 1, 1894. William E. Burt was the insured.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was an action, to recoyer on a policy of life insurance, commenced in tbe District Court of Travis County, Texas, and removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. The policy was issued August 1, 1894. William E. Burt was the insured. The policy, in case of death, was payable to Anna M. Burt, the wife of the insured, if living, otherwise to his executors, -administrators or assigns. On September 10, 1895, the beneficiary Anna M. Burt and her husband, the insured, assigned a one half…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
There is nothing, in the policy which in terms covers the com tingency- here presented, the extracts therefrom given in the preceding statement being all that even .remotely by suggestion or inference can have any bearing. The question therefore is whether an ordinary life policy, containing no applicable special provisions, is a binding contract to insure against a legal execution for crime. The petitioners would distinguish between cases in which the insured is justly convicted and executed and those in which he is unjustly convicted. The allegation here is that, notwithstanding his…
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