Porter v. Home Friendly Society
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. May 4, 1901. Time of performance may be waived: 62 Ga. 247; 74 Ga. 51. Waiver of conditions: 98 Ga. 262, 266; Id. 533, and citations; 41 Ga. 130. Compromise agreement with beneficiary enforceable though insured still living: 163 N. Y. 374, s. c. 50 Lawy. Rep. Annot. 204. The member being twenty-one years of age when the certificate was issued, his life expectancy had not expired when the suit was brought.
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Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. May 4, 1901. Time of performance may be waived: 62 Ga. 247; 74 Ga. 51. Waiver of conditions: 98 Ga. 262, 266; Id. 533, and citations; 41 Ga. 130. Compromise agreement with beneficiary enforceable though insured still living: 163 N. Y. 374, s. c. 50 Lawy. Rep. Annot. 204. The member being twenty-one years of age when the certificate was issued, his life expectancy had not expired when the suit was brought. See tables, 70 Ga. 844 — 6. According to one line of authorities, death is presumed to have occurred at the expiration…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
On the 18th of May, 1900, Emma Porter brought suit, in the city court of Atlanta, against the Home Friendly Society, upon a policy or certificate of life-insurance issued by the defendant to her son, Robert P. Porter, in which she was named as the beneficiary. The petition alleged that the defendant was a corporation created under the laws of the State of Maryland, having a place of business and an agent in the city of Atlanta, Ga.; that the policy was issued on the 7th day of April, 1890; that in 1892' Robert P. Porter disappeared and had not since been seen or heard of; that immediately…
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