 | 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 - 1902 - 806 pages
...beneficiaries of deceased members, the contract falls within the 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 destruction or injury of something in which the other party... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1895 - 1138 pages
...the provisions of the section above referred to. That section defines a contract of insurance to be " an agreement by which one party for 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 either party... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1876 - 1040 pages
...Allen appearing for the Commonwealth. The 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... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - 1929 - 868 pages
...Justice Gray, in Commonwealth v. Wetherbee, 105 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 paid in money, either in one sum or at different times during the continuance of the... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 pages
...Maittand v. The Atlantic, 1 Newb. 514 ; SC, 8 Am. Law. Reg. 477; 1 Pars, on Ship. &. Adm. 105. (542) A contract of insurance is an agreement 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 party... | |
 | 1940 - 1228 pages
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 | 1896 - 1148 pages
...contract of insurance, within the Massachusetts insurance act (St. 1887, c. 214, § 3), providing that a contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party, for a consideration, promises to nay money or its equivalent, or to do something ш which the other party has an interest. 2. The Massachusetts... | |
 | Idaho - 1947 - 1262 pages
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 | 1892 - 1144 pages
...The leading case upon this subject is Com. vs. Wetherbee (105 Mass., 160), wherein the court says: "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 times during the continuance of... | |
 | 1892 - 1310 pages
...death. The leading case upon this subject is Com. v. Wetherbee, 105 Mass. 160, wherein the court says: "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 times during the continuance of... | |
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A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party for 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. 
