Page v. Modern Woodmen of America
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Polk county: ObREN T. Williams, Judge. Tbis is an action by tbe plaintiff to recover on a benefit certificate for $2,000 issued by tbe defendant upon tbe life of Arthur E. Page, tbe husband of tbe plaintiff, and payable upon bis death. Tbe defendant is a corporation organised and doing business under tbe laws of tbe state of Illinois.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Polk county: ObREN T. Williams, Judge. Tbis is an action by tbe plaintiff to recover on a benefit certificate for $2,000 issued by tbe defendant upon tbe life of Arthur E. Page, tbe husband of tbe plaintiff, and payable upon bis death. Tbe defendant is a corporation organised and doing business under tbe laws of tbe state of Illinois. Tbe plaintiff’s husband, Arthur E. Page, became a member and was insured in tbe defendant order in tbe state of Iowa on tbe 5th day of January, 1901. Sometime after tbe month of June, 1903, tbe membership was…
1Opinion of the CourtSibbbcKER, J.
Tbe plaintiff contends that tbe circuit court erred in submitting to tbe jury tbe inquiry wbetber or not tbe insured, Arthur E. Page, was dead at tbe time of tbe trial. In ruling upon plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict in her favor tbe court declared that in bis opinion tbe evidence, in tbe light of tbe decision in tbe Miller Case (Miller v. Sovereign Camp W. O. W. 140 Wis. 505, 122 N. W. 1126), would justify a direction of a verdict in her favor, but that be deemed it appropriate to take a verdict to lay tbe foundation for a modification by tbis court of tbe rule declared in tbe…
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