Griesa v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
Briefly stated, the facts material to the decision of the question here under consideration are these: By á poíicy of insurance issued upon the life of Lucius H. Perkins, *49of Lawrence, Kan., the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York promised that upon his death it would issue to his executors 100 interest-bearing gold coin bonds, each of the denomination of $1,000 and payable in 20 years, or, if the executors should so elect, would pay to them the cash value of the bonds, to be computed at $1,305 for each bond. Witliin six months after the issuance of the…
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