Legal Opinion

Sommer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided February 9, 1970No. 54658Published

1Opinion of the Court

449 S.W.2d 644 (1970)

Frances B. SOMMER, Respondent,

v.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant.

No. 54658.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

February 9, 1970.

Richard M. Stout, Kirkwood, and Kent E. Karohl, St. Louis, for respondent.

Fordyce, Mayne, Hartman, Renard & Stribling, P. Terence Crebs, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

FINCH, Judge.

Plaintiff, the beneficiary in two life insurance policies which provided additional benefits in the event of death by accidental means, brought suit thereon, claiming her husband died as a result of an accident. Trial before the court…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Whitfield v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. of HartfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
  2. Brunswick v. Standard Accident InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1919
  3. Logan v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1898
  4. Sommer v. Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanySupreme Court of Missouri · 1970
  5. Ieppert v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1961

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