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- Title: Torkelson v. Bank of Horton
 - Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
 - Release Date : January 11, 1971
 - Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
 - Pages : * pages
 - Size : 58 KB
 
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The opinion of the court was delivered by  This was an action against a bank for damages for wrongfully
            dishonoring a check drawn upon it to pay a life insurance
            premium. Plaintiff was the beneficiary in the policy which lapsed
            shortly before the death of the insured for nonpayment of the
            premium. Summary judgment was entered for the bank and plaintiff
            has appealed.   Plaintiff Tonie Torkelson, Sr., filed his petition against the
            defendant Bank of Horton on September 2, 1964, alleging the
            following: That during his lifetime Tonie Torkelson, Jr., had
            issued to him by the Knight's Life Insurance Company a policy of
            life insurance insuring his life in the amount of $20,000, with
            double indemnity in case of accidental death; that plaintiff was
            named as beneficiary in the policy if living at the time of Tony
            Junior's death; a premium of $143.20 became due on the policy and
            on September 17, 1962, Tony Junior remitted this premium to the
            insurance company by means of a check for that amount drawn by
            him upon an account maintained by him in the defendant bank; the
            insurance company deposited the check but on September 27, 1962,
            the defendant
            [208 Kan. 268]