Cotton v. Southwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. 'Eobert Sloan, Judge. The petition recites that plaintiff intestate, E. M. Cotton, held a certificate of life insurance in the Y. A. S. Security Life Association for $2,000; that by written contract between said V. A. S. Security Life Association, which, for brevity, we shall hereafter designate as the “Security Company”, and the defendant, the latter accepted, on consideration, a transfer of the membership of the former, and…
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Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. 'Eobert Sloan, Judge. The petition recites that plaintiff intestate, E. M. Cotton, held a certificate of life insurance in the Y. A. S. Security Life Association for $2,000; that by written contract between said V. A. S. Security Life Association, which, for brevity, we shall hereafter designate as the “Security Company”, and the defendant, the latter accepted, on consideration, a transfer of the membership of the former, and adopted its contracts, certificates, and policies, and bound itself to perform all the terms and conditions thereof. It is…
1Opinion of the Court
Waterman, J.-
1 The material part of the contract of reinsurance referred to is as follows: “The said Southwestern Mututal Life Association further agrees that it will, and hereby does, adopt as its contracts, certificates, and policies each and every certificate or policy issued by‘ the Security Life Association, and which shall be in force, as shoAvn by the books of said Security Life Association, at 12 o’clock noon on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1891. It further agrees that it will perform, all and singular, the terms and conditions of each and *731every certificate and policy as specified…
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- Piedmont, Etc. Life-Ins. Co. v. Ewing, Etc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Commercial Fire Insurance v. Morris & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- Clark v. Insurance Co. of North AmericaSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1896
- Piedmont & Arlington Life-Insurance v. EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Barre v. Council Bluffs InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
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