CONNECTICUT MUT. LIFE INS. CO. v. SCAMMON


117 U.S. 634 (1886)

CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. SCAMMON & Others.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1886.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward S. Isham and Mr. Robert T. Lincoln for appellant.

Mr. W.I. Culver and Mr. Charles F. White for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 10th of September, 1866, J. Young Scammon, of Chicago, Illinois, and Florence A.D. Scammon and Arianna E. Scammon, his daughters, were the owners of a lot of land in Chicago, No. 90 Michigan Avenue, known as "lot number five (5), in block number eleven (11), in Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago," the father being the owner in fee of an equal undivided one third part of the lot, and having a tenancy...

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