Insurance Co. v. Brame

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an insurer has no claim to recover death benefits paid against a third party who allegedly murdered the insured
• “[A]t the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in the death of the party injured.”
• “The authorities are so numerous and so uniform to the proposition, that by the common law no civil action lies for an injury which results in death, that it is impossible to speak of it as a proposition open to question.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).