Fuller v. Metropolian Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for a cancellation of certain receipts given to the defendant, for an accounting, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint contains forty-one counts. Each count sets up a different policy of insurance, but they are all alike in other respects.
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Suit for a cancellation of certain receipts given to the defendant, for an accounting, and for damages, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint contains forty-one counts. Each count sets up a different policy of insurance, but they are all alike in other respects. The first count is as follows: “ 1. On October 26th, 1872, the defendant issued to John S. Follansbee, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a policy of…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
In the years 1872, ’73 and ’74, the defendant issued a number of participating policies, providing for a dividend upon the policies of each year at the end of ten years. All were term, life and endowment policies for differing periods. Forty-one of these are mentioned in the complaint, one in each count. In the case of each policy mentioned the defendant, at the expiration of ten years from its date, paid the holder the amount promised as an endowment, or, where the policy was for a longer term than ten years, purchased the policy by the payment of its surrender value. The defendant also…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cronin v. Vermont Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Rhode Island · 1898
- De Peyster v. American Fire InsuranceNew York Court of Chancery · 1837
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- Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1922
- Greeff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Mutual Benefit Life Ins. v. HeroldDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1912
- Mathews v. LivingstonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1912
- Dresser v. Hartford Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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