Legal Opinion
Kansas City Life Ins. v. Davis
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 8, 1938No. 8524PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court in an action brought by appellee on an insurance policy, appellee being the named beneficiary thereof. A jury having been waived, the court gave judgment for appellee for the face value of the policy.
Throughout this opinion we shall refer to the plaintiff, appellant here, as the company, and to the defendant, appellee here, as the beneficiary.
The company appeals upon eighteen assignments of error, but all are determined by our consideration of assignment I which raises, as we hold, the broad question as to whether…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Denver Live Stock Commission Co. v. LeeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
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