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UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WATERS, 1888 — 124 U.S. 369 · caselaw · US
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UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WATERS
124 U.S. 36931 L. Ed. 474·Supreme Court of the United States·1888
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Opinion
UNION MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WATERS.
EEEOB TO THE CIECUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE NOETHEEN DISTRICT OF OHIO.
Announced January 23, 1888.
In accordance with a stipulation of the parties the judgment of the CQurt below is reversed and a mandate issued.
Mr. J. O. Winshvp for plaintiff in error.
Mr. J. H. Hoyt for defendant in error.
[MAJORITY — Me. Chief Justice Waite]
Me. Chief Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case the parties-have stipulated as follows:
“ The controversy between the parties hereto, having been amicably adjusted, it is now stipulated and agreed between us, that as to the proceedings now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, docketed as case No. 356, wherein the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Maine is plaintiff in error, and Electa L. Waters is defendant in error, an entry shall be made by said court, as upon the trial thereof, that the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio,. Eastern Division, shall be reversed and the said cause remanded to the Circuit Court, and a judgment be entered against said defendant for costs herein, and that said mandate shall be issued at once.”
It is, therefore, on motion, ordered that the judgment he, and the same is hereby, reversed, costs in this court to- he paid by the plaintiff m error, a/nd the cause remanded, with inst/ructions to proceed in accordance with such stipulation.