Legal Opinion
Atlas Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Portscheller
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided June 11, 1945PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Layton, Chief Justice :
In 1934, The Capitol Mutual Benefit Association, a corporation of Colorado, predecessor to the plaintiff in error, upon the application of one Peter Portscheller, issued to him a certificate of insurance by which it agreed, upon his death, to pay to Helen Portscheller, the defendant in error, a certain amount of money, not exceeding $1,000.00. The insured died; the association declined to pay the stipulated benefits; and the beneficiary sued the association in the Circuit Court of Wayne County in Chancery, in the State *301of Michigan. Service of process was made on the…
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