NORTHWESTERN LIFE INS. CO. v. McCUE

No. 138.

223 U.S. 234 (1912)

NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. McCUE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 19, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William H. White, Jr., and Mr. William H. White, with whom Mr. George H. Noyes and Mr. John R. Dyer were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Daniel Harmon, with whom Mr. H.W. Walsh and Mr. G.B. Sinclair were on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

The question in the case is whether death by the hand of the law in execution of a conviction and sentence for murder, is covered by a policy of life insurance though such manner of death is not excepted from the policy, there being no question of the justness of the sentence.

The case was in equity and brought in the Corporation Court for the city of Charlottesville...

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