Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Hillmon
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action begun July 13, 1880, by Sallie E. Hill-mon, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, to recover the amount of a policy of insurance, ($5000,) issued by the company March 4, 1879, upon the life of John ~W. Hillmon, her husband, in which the plaintiff was named as beneficiary.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action begun July 13, 1880, by Sallie E. Hill-mon, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, to recover the amount of a policy of insurance, ($5000,) issued by the company March 4, 1879, upon the life of John ~W. Hillmon, her husband, in which the plaintiff was named as beneficiary. Plaintiff made the usual allegations of compliance with the.terms of the policy, and averred that the assured had died March 17, 1879, thirteen days after the policy was issued, and that, due proofs had been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice BeowN
We shall have occasion to notice but few of the 108 assignments of errors in this case.
1. .Several of these relate to an order of consolidation, and to the ruling of the court giving to the plaintiff six peremptory challenges to the'jury, while each defendant had but three.
On June 14, 1882, the three original cases were first consolidated for trial, and so remained through all the trials which took place prior to the settlement with the New York Life. The propriety of this consolidation wras .affirmed by this court upon its first appearance here in 145 U. S. 285. A stipulation appears to have…
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