 It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the country if one could recover insurance money payable on the death of a party whose life he had feloniously taken. As well might he recover insurance money upon a building that he had willfully fired.  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory ... - Page 110by Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Edward Bell Green, Frank Dale, John Henry Burford, Robert Lee Williams, Matthew John Kane, Howard J. Parker, Charles Winfield Van Eaton - 1916Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...proper, he forfeited all rights under it when, to secure its immediate payment, he murdered the assured. It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the...money upon a building that he had willfully fired." These maxims without any statute giving them force or operation frequently control the effect and nullify... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 648 pages
...felonious. And as said by Mr. Justice Field in Ar. Y. Mn!. Life Ins. Co. v. Annstrong. 117 US, 600: "It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the...recover insurance money upon a building that he had wilfully fired." In the case of Schreiner v. High Court of Illinois Catholic Order of Foresters, 35... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 502 pages
...inception. The court might well have stopped here, but after further discussion concluded by saying: "It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the...death of a party whose life he had feloniously taken." This opinion has been rejected by some courts on the ground that it was a dictum, as Hunter was not... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1900 - 460 pages
...however, an exception to the rule, and so in our judgment, is a case of mistake clearly made out. For it would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the country, if it were not in its power to relieve from the consequences of a mistake unequivocally established. But... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 2100 pages
...aptly stated in Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Armstrong, 117 US 591, 6 Sup. Ct. 877, 29 L. Ed. 997, that— "It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the country, If one could recover Insurance money * * * on the death of a party whose life he hud feloniously taken. As well might he recover insurance... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 986 pages
...when, ¡2 to secure its Immediate payment, he murdered • the assured. It would be a reproach to*the Jurisprudence of the country if one could recover...money upon a building that he had willfully fired." In Hatch v. Insurance Co., 120 Mass. 550, It appears that a policy of Insurance on the life of a married... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1150 pages
...punishment by imprisonment In the state prison and constituted a felony; and that a party cannot In any case recover insurance money payable on the death of a party whose life I he has feloniously taken. In support of the C=For other cases gee same topic and KEY-NUMBER ID all... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1166 pages
...proper, he forfeited all rights under it when, to secure its immediate payment, he murdered the assured. It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the...taken. As well might he recover insurance money upon a buildingthat he had willfully Bred." These maxims, without any statute giving them force or operation,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 788 pages
...proper, he forfeited all rights under it when, to secure its immediate payment, he murdered the assured. It would be a reproach to the jurisprudence of the...recover insurance money upon a building that he had wilfully fired. This view renders it unnecessary to consider the effect upon the policy of the statements,... | |
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