Travelers' Insurance v. Pulling
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. On the 15th day of January, 1873, Howell G-. Pulling took out a policy of life iusurance in the Travelers’ Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, on the ordinary life plan, insuring his life in the sum of §10,000, which, by the terms of the policy, was made payable to his wife, Helen B. M. Pulling.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jonas Hutchinson, Judge, presiding. On the 15th day of January, 1873, Howell G-. Pulling took out a policy of life iusurance in the Travelers’ Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, on the ordinary life plan, insuring his life in the sum of §10,000, which, by the terms of the policy, was made payable to his wife, Helen B. M. Pulling. The annual premium was $186, but it was payable, as provided in the policy, in semi-annual payments of $95.79 each, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Craig
It will be observed that the note executed on the 15th day of July, 1880, for the semi-annual premium due on that date, was made payable on demand, after date, and it is insisted on behalf of the insurance company that during the next two weeks after the note was executed a demand of payment was made and payment refused, and upon such demand and refusal the policy became forfeited, and no action could thereafter be maintained upon it. As has been seen from the" foregoing statement of facts, the policy provided that if any subsequent- premium on the policy or any installment thereof, or any…
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