Stambaugh v. Blake
Citations
- 1 Monag. 609
- 15 A. 705
- 1888 Pa. LEXIS 730
Syllabus
<p>A son in lawhas no insurable interest in his mother-in-law’s life.</p> <p>A son-in-law took out a policy of insurance on the life of his mother-in-law and subsequently assigned it, by written assignment, to a stranger for a nominal consideration. The assignee collected the insurance, upon the death of the assured. In an action of assumpsit by the administrator of the assured, to recover the insurance received by the assignee, the defendant, by offers of evidence, proposed to prove that the original beneficiary, with his wife, had lived with the assured and supported her, that she had no other means of support, and that the wife of the beneficiary, who was the only child and person interested in the estate, knew of the insurance and made no demand for it. The defendant also offered to prove a valuable consideration, not named in the assignment, paid by him. &eld, that the offers of evidence were inadmissible, and that the plaintiff was entitled to recover.</p> <p>Where the assignee of a wagering policy has received the amount of the policy from the insurance company, the statute of limitations does not begin to run in his favor, in an action by the administrator of the assured for the money so received, until letters of administration have been taken out on the estate of the assured.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- phrase “period of thirty days” begins on fixed date and ends after expiration of thirty days from that date
- Legislature is to be supposed to have intended to act in accordance with reason and common sense
- “reason and common sense are not to be abandoned in the interpretive process”
- \The word `period' as applied to time carries with it the idea of the separation of a designated interval of time from the flow of time in general. The words `a period' do not readily expand to include an irregular succession of times or periods of varying length....\
- “The word ‘period’ as applied to time carries with it the idea of the separation of a designated interval of time from the flow of time in general. The words ‘a period’ do not readily expand to include an irregular succession of times or periods of varying length----”
- \The word `period' as applied to time carries with it the idea of the separation of a designated interval of time from the flow of time in general. The words `a period' do not readily expand to include an irregular succession of times or periods of varying length....\
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