Carey v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, from a judgment of the City Court of the city of Yonkers, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 26th day of May, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 27tli day of May, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, P. J.:
Although the case is not free from error, I think the judgment and order may be affirmed. I find nothing calculated to affect the result in the rulings excepted to.
The action is upon a policy of life insurance issued for the plaintiff’s benefit upon the life of the plaintiff’s wife. The policy is for the sum of $250, and provides for weekly payments of 19 cents each. Ho place is specified in the policy for the payment of the pre*770miums, but the defendant’s practice was to send a collecting agent weekly tq the house of the insured, where payments were made regularly by the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Whitehead v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Meyer v. . Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Leslie v. . Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1875
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- Adams v. Washington Fidelity National InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1934
- Robbins v. National Life and Accident Insurance Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1968
- American National Ins. Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
- Barag, Admr. v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
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