Bevin v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Abner G. Bevin, against the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance, made for one thousand dollars, in favor of the plaintiff, upon the life of George Barstow. The cause was tried before the superior court, for the county of Middlesex, at the term holden in March, 1854. The court found the following facts.
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This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Abner G. Bevin, against the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, upon a policy of insurance, made for one thousand dollars, in favor of the plaintiff, upon the life of George Barstow. The cause was tried before the superior court, for the county of Middlesex, at the term holden in March, 1854. The court found the following facts. In consideration of the annual premium of thirty-three dollars and ten cents, the defendants, on the 22d day of January, 1849, executed, and delivered to the plaintiff, a policy of insurance on the life of George…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
Several questions of some practical importance are presented for our decision, in this case. We have occasion to decide only some of them, in order to make an end of this case, and shall, therefore, allude to such only with particularity.
It is said, first, that the plaintiff had no interest in the life of Barstow, when the policy was obtained, and if any, not the $1,000 stated in the policy. In marine and fire insurances, the questions and rules for ascertaining interest, are in general, well settled, and of every-day occurrence. In them the rule is, that the contract of insurance is one of…
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