Connecticut General Life Ins. v. Mullen
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Action by Henry P. Mullen against the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff below brought his action to recover the amount of a policy of life insurance alleged to have been issued upon the life of his brother, now deceased, in which he, the plaintiff, was beneficiary. Compliance was alleged upon the part of the insured with all requirements necessary to make said policy a valid, subsisting contract, and refusal upon the part of the Insurance Company to pay plaintiff the amount named in the policy.
To the statement of claim, the defendant set up the defense that there never had been any contract of insurance consummated; that prior to…
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