Cammack v. Lewis

82 U.S. 643

21 L.Ed. 244

15 Wall. 643

CAMMACK

v.

LEWIS.

December Term, 1872

APPEAL from the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia; the case being thus:

One John E. Lewis, of Washington, D. C., being in bad health and owing by note $70, which he was not then able to pay, to a certain C. Cammack, Jr., tailor, for clothing, procured June 19th, 1868, at Cammack's suggestion, an insurance on his life, in the New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company, which had an agency in Washington, for $3000. The policy, No. 2885, was for seven years. Cammack paid the premium for the first year; and immediately…