| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 806 pages
...definition of an insurance contract; that is, an agreement by which one party, for a consideration, promises to make a certain payment of money upon the...something in which the other party has an interest. Com. v. Wetherbee, 105 Mass. 149; Franklin Beneficial Ass'n v. Com., 10 Pa. St. 357." People's Mut.... | |
| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1895 - 1138 pages
...him employment for ten weeks at a fixed compensation. It further promises to furnish this employment upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest, to wit, his prior contract of employment. This contract of employment, upon the destruction of or injury... | |
| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1876 - 1040 pages
...opinion of the court, recently filed, is as follows : — " A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party, for a consideration (which is usually paid in money, either in one gum, or at different times during the continuance of the risk), promises to make certain payment of... | |
| United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1929 - 868 pages
...Mass. 149, defines a contract of insurance as follows: "A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party for a consideration, which is usually...risk, promises to make a certain payment of money, or the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest. In fire and marine... | |
| Massachusetts - 1876 - 1038 pages
...opinion of the court, recently filed, is as follows : — "A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party, for a consideration (which is usually...paid in money, either in one sum. or at different tinieH during the continuance of the risk), promisee to make certain payment of money upon the destruction... | |
| Kansas. Insurance Department - Insurance - 1884 - 354 pages
...that State thus defines insurance: "A contract by which cue party promises to make a certain payment upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest, is a contract for insurance, whatever may be the terms of payment of the consideration, or the mode... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 948 pages
...that state thus defines insurance : "A contract by which one party promises to make a certain payment upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest, is a contract for insurance, whatever may be the terms of payment of the -consideration, or the mode... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1076 pages
...Com. v. Wethcrbee, 105 Mass. 149, it is held that "a contract by which one party, for a consideration, promises to make a certain payment of money upon the...destruction or injury of something in which the other parly has ¡in interest, is ¡i contract of insurance, whatever may be the terms of payment of the... | |
| John Allen Finch - Insurance law - 1897 - 476 pages
...a consideration, promises to pay money or its equivalent, or to do some act of value to the assured upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest." Same— Foreign Company Right to do Business— Illegality of Contracts.— The Massachusetts Insurance... | |
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