MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. v. LIEBING

No. 215.

259 U.S. 209 (1922)

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. LIEBING.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wm. Marshall Bullitt, with whom Mr. Frederick L. Allen, Mr. John H. Holliday, Mr. Frederic D. McKenney, Mr. S.W. Fordyce, Mr. Thomas W. White and Mr. W.H. Woodward were on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James J. O'Donohoe for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit to recover upon a policy insuring the life of one Blees, issued to him and subsequently assigned by him to his wife, now Mrs. Liebing, the plaintiff (defendant in error). The contract was made on September 29, 1901, by the defendant (the plaintiff in error), in Missouri, by a delivery of the policy to Blees in Macon, Missouri, where he lived. Three annual...

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