Eagle v. New York Life Ins. Co.
Decision Date | 13 May 1910 |
Docket Number | No. 7,032.,7,032. |
Citation | 48 Ind.App. 284,91 N.E. 814 |
Parties | EAGLE v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Marion County; Henry Clay Allen, Judge.
Action by Mary W. Eagle against the New York Life Insurance Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Joseph Collier and J. H. Kingsbury, for appellant. James H. McIntosh and Gavin, Gavin & Davis, for appellee.
This action was based upon a contract of insurance executed by appellee on the life of one Charles D. Eagle, husband of appellant. The policy was for $1,500, and appellant was designated as beneficiary therein.
The complaint alleges that on the 13th day of July, 1897, the defendant executed its contract of insurance, whereby, in consideration of application made therefor and payment of premiums thereon, defendant promises to pay to the plaintiff on the death of one Charles D. Eagle the sum of $1,500 on due proof of death of said Eagle. The defendant further promises in event premiums are paid thereon for a period of nine years and thereafter further payments of premiums were defaulted, then, if said Charles D. Eagle should die within a period of seven years and eleven months from the time of such default, it would pay to the beneficiary the sum of $1,500. A copy of the contract of insurance and application made therefor is filed with the complaint, and marked “Exhibit A.” Plaintiff further avers that the premiums were paid in advance on said contract of insurance in accordance with the stipulations therein for a period of nine years from date of execution thereof to and including the year ending July 13, 1906; that the semiannual premium due and payable on the 13th day of July, 1906, was not paid on said day, nor was the same paid within 30 days grace allowed by said policy;that afterwards, to wit, January 27, 1907, within said period of 7 years and 11 months as stipulated in said contract for extended insurance, said Charles D. Eagle died; that she has made full proof of insured's death and in the manner provided in said contract; that she and the insured have performed all the stipulations in said contract on their part to be performed; that defendant, in violation of the terms of said contract, refuses to pay the said sum of $1,500, and denies liability under said contract; that there is due, etc.
The main body of the policy reads: etc. Under the title of “Special Advantages,” subdivision “A.-Table loans,” etc., certain loan and surrender values and provisions for extensions are shown as follows: Loan value at the end of the eighth year, $99; at the end of the ninth year, $117; the surrender value in paid-up insurance at the end of the ninth year, $277; and the “extended insurance for $1,500 for a term of seven years and eleven months for the ninth year.” The table for the other advantages it is needles to set out for the purposes of this opinion, nor the accumulation of guaranties, because they are not applicable to this policy. Under the title “Benefits and Provisions” said policy contains the following provisions: The application is set out, and it shows that the “name of the person applying for insurance is Charles D. Eagle.” In this application it is agreed on behalf of himself “or any person who shall have or claim any interest in any policy issued under this application,” among other things, as follows: There was an offer to confess judgment for $52 and costs accrued and accruing, including those on final judgment.
Appellee answered in two paragraphs- first, general denial, and, second, a special and partial answer to all except $49 of the principal and the interest thereon from the time of the death of the insured. It admits the execution of the policy sued on, and avers that the appellee is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New York, with its general offices in the city of New York, in said state, and that it is a resident and citizen of said state; that said policy was executed in the city of New York; that one of its provisions was that “the company will make advances to the insured as such under this policy within the month of grace allowed for payment of premiums, on application to the home office at the third or any subsequent anniversary of the insurance within the accumulation period under the terms of the company's loan agreement then in use, upon the conditions in said policy set forth”; that insured paid the premiums up to and including the one maturing on January 13, 1906; that the premium maturing July 13, 1906, was wholly unpaid; that while the policy was in force on July 20, 1905, the appellee, pursuant to its terms and at the request of said Charles D. Eagle and appellant, advanced to them $99 in cash as a loan upon said policy, and in consideration thereof they executed to appellee in New York, in the state of New York, the following policy loan agreement: ...
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