HARTFORD LIFE INS. CO. v. BARBER

Nos. 252, 253.

245 U.S. 146 (1917)

HARTFORD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. BARBER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James C. Jones, with whom Mr. F.W. Lehmann was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Charles E. Morrow, with whom Mr. Robert Kelley was on the briefs, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

These are suits upon two certificates of qualified life insurance issued to Frank Barber and payable at his death to his wife, the plaintiff — defendant in error here. The defence in both suits was the same; that Barber failed to pay a mortuary assessment levied on January 29, 1910, known as quarterly call No. 126, and that the failure avoided the policies by their...

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