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- Title: Insurance Company v. Young's Administrator
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1874
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of California, in which court the administrator of McPherson Young, of San Francisco, sued the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (a company incorporated by the State of New York but having a general agent, one H. S. Homans, at San Francisco, and an office there for the transaction of life insurance business) to recover $5000, which the administrator alleged had been insured by the said company on the life of his decedent and not paid. The case was submitted to the court under the act of March 3d, 1865, without the intervention of a jury. This act enacts that parties may submit issues of fact in civil cases in this way; that the finding of the facts by the court may be general or special, 'and shall have the same effect as the verdict of a jury.' And it adds that 'when the finding is special the review may extend to the determination of the sufficiency of the facts to support the judgment.' The case, as found by the court was thus: