New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham/Dissent Clifford

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93 U.S. 24

New York Life Insurance Company  v.  Statham


MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD, with whom concurred MR. JUSTICE HUNT, dissenting.

Where the parties to an executory money-contract live in different countries, and the governments of those countries become involved in public war with each other, the contract between such parties is suspended during the existence of the war, and revives when peace ensues; and that rule, in my judgment, is as applicable to the contract of life insurance as to any other executory contract. Consequently, I am obliged to dissent from the opinion and judgment of the court in these cases.

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