N.Y. MUT. LIFE INS. CO. v. ARMSTRONG


117 U.S. 591 (1886)

NEW YORK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. ARMSTRONG, Administratrix.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 5, 1886.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph H. Choate for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Herbert T. Ketcham for defendant in error. Mr. George M. McKellar was with him on the brief.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.

From the charge of the court, and its opinion on the motion for a new trial, 20 Blatchford, 493, it appears that the refusal to admit testimony of Hunter's fraudulent purpose in procuring the policy, and his feloniously causing, whilst the sole owner of it, the death of the assured, was founded upon the assumption that the insurance...

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