Case ID: ill-app_185/html/0614-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Emma J. Herzog, Appellee, v. German National Life Insurance Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 19,344.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Arnold Heap, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1913.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed March 31, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Emma J. Herzog against German National Life Insurance Company to recover on a policy of reinsurance issued upon the life of John A. Herzog, plaintiff, the wife of the insured, being named beneficiary therein. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Insurance, § 706*—when evidence sufficient to sustain recovery on policy of reinsurance. In an action by a beneficiary on a life insurance policy where the facts showed that a policy had been issued by another company and that the defendant Company had taken over the business of the former company and reinsured its policy holders, and had issued the policy sued on, held that there was sufficient evidence to show that the policy upon which the judgment was based was in force as a reinsurance of the insured by the defendant in pursuance of its contract with the former company, and that a judgment in favor of plaintiff was sustained by the evidence.
    Samuel Shaw Parks, for appellant.
    George A. MgCorkle, for appellee.
   Mr. Justice Clark

delivered the opinion of the court.