New England Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Woodworth

New England Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Woodworth
by Samuel Blatchford

Syllabus

New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Woodworth 111 U.S. 138 (1884) was a U.S. Supreme Court case that reaffirmed the general rule that simple contract debts, such as a policy of insurance not under seal, are, for the purpose of founding administration, assets where the debtor resides, without regard to the place where the policy is found. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Court Documents

Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

111 U.S. 138

New England Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Woodworth

Dwight Foster, Alfred D. Foster, and Geo. F. Hoar, for plaintiff in error.

J. S. Lothrop, for defendant in error.

BLATCHFORD, J.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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