Legal Opinion
Jefferson Standard Life Ins. v. Keeton
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 14, 1923No. Nos. 2019, 2020PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, Circuit Judge.
For the purposes of this appeal, the facts in these two cases are legally indistinguishable. They have been argued and submitted together and will be dealt with in a single opinion. In the months of April and May of 1921, one Joseph S. Keeton, *54of whom the appellee is the widow and the executrix, took out three policies of life insurance for $5,000 each, two with the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company and one with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Each of them contained a provision that it should be incontestable after one year from the date…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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