Woodson v. Beck
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from O. II. Allen, J., May Term, 1909, of VaNCE. The plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace on the following due bill: “HeNdeksoN, N. C., 4 December, 1908. “Due R. B. Woodson $92.92 (ninety-two dollars 92-100) on a policy of life insurance applied for this day in the Equitable Life, said $92.92 to be paid when policy is delivered. (Signed) J. W. Beck.”
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Appeal from O. II. Allen, J., May Term, 1909, of VaNCE. The plaintiff sued the defendant before a justice of the peace on the following due bill: “HeNdeksoN, N. C., 4 December, 1908. “Due R. B. Woodson $92.92 (ninety-two dollars 92-100) on a policy of life insurance applied for this day in the Equitable Life, said $92.92 to be paid when policy is delivered. (Signed) J. W. Beck.” Tbe defendant admitted tbe execution of tbe due bill and a tender of tbe policy for $2,000, an ordinary life policy, but alleged tbat tbe contract between bim and plaintiff was tbat tbe defendant could purchase tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Tbe only question presented by this appeal is tbe correctness of bis Honoi*’s ruling, excluding tbe following testimony of tbe defendant: “Plaintiff offered to insure my life. I told bim I wanted no insurance. He said, ‘You have an Equitable ^policy tbat I can trade you for to your' advantage.’ Asked to see it. I showed it. He saw it was payable to my wife. He said he’d write tbe company, and later said be bad done so. My policy for $1,000 was a twenty-payment policy, on which I bad paid nineteen payments. He proposed to get me a new policy for $2,000, and tbat my old policy would be accepted…
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