Court Opinion

ID: 9864558
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-25 13:58:31.956856+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:18:04.043639
License: Public Domain

THE COURT.
In their petition for a rehearing of this cause the respondents confine themselves to a criticism of the doctrine asserted by the court of appeals of New York in the case of Morgan v. Mutual etc. Ins. Co., 189 N. Y. 451, [82 N. E. 438], wherein it was held that they were brought within the jurisdiction of the courts of that state by constructive service of summons. If it be conceded that their argument on this point is destructive of the doctrine assailed, it does not follow that the judgment of the district court of appeal is erroneous, for it does not rest alone upon the estoppel pleaded in the supplemental answer—it is fully sustained by the allegations (stipulated to be true) of the third defense set up in the original answer. It was upon these identical facts that the courts of New York correctly held that the appellant must pay the amount due on the policy to the representatives of those who, as assignees, had kept it alive by payment of the premiums, amounting with interest to more than the sum insured. Whether the New York decisions sustaining their jurisdiction were correct or not, it is clear that as to the merits of the controversy the final decision there was correct, and for the same reasons that appellant was compelled to pay there, it must be exonerated here.
Without determining the question of jurisdiction, the petition for a transfer of the cause to this court for further consideration is denied.