Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Wise
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. This suit was instituted in the Superior Court of Baltimore city by the appellee against the appellant, and subsequently upon the affidavit of the latter, was removed to the Circuit Court for Howard county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County. This suit was instituted in the Superior Court of Baltimore city by the appellee against the appellant, and subsequently upon the affidavit of the latter, was removed to the Circuit Court for Howard county. The cause of action was a policy of insurance eifected by the appellee in the office of the appellant, on the 17th of May, 18o7, upon the life of her husband, the Rev. Henry A. Wise of Baltimore city, for the sum of $20,000. The premiums were regularly paid by the deceased up to the time of his death, which occurred on the 10th of February,…
1Opinion of the CourtGrason, J.
The record in this cause contains two exceptions, the first, taken to the ruling of the Court below in excluding from the consideration by the jury the evidence therein set out; and the second, to the rejection of ten of the eleven prayers offered by the appellant, its first prayer having been conceded. The rejected prayers all relate to certain answers made by Henry A. Wise, Jr., to questions five, eleven and fifteen put to him before the policy was issued by the agent of the appellant. The appellee, by her declaration in writing, dated the seventeenth day of May, in the year 1867, (the same…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Campbell v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
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