Legal Opinion

Federal Life Insurance v. Maxam

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided November 22, 1917No. 9,327PublishedCited by 26 opinions

From Posey Circuit Court; Ilerdis Clements, Judge. Action by Sylvester A. Maxam against the Federal Life Insurance Company and another. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant named appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtFelt, J.

This is a suit by Sylvester A. Maxam against Federal Life" Insurance Company and Mary A. Maxam, for the damages alleged to have been sustained by Sylvester A. Maxam, hereinafter referred to as appellee, because of the wrongful cancellation or lapsing of a policy of life insurance issued upon his life in the sum of $2,500, payable to his wife, Mary A. Maxam, who filed an answer showing an assignment and transfer to appellee of whatever interest she had in the policy, or rights growing out of its cancellation.

The complaint was in one paragraph to which an answer in three paragraphs was filed by…

2Cases cited52 opinions

  1. Roehm v. HorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
  2. United States v. BehanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  3. Anvil Mining Co. v. HumbleSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  4. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. RichardsIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  5. Conrow v. . LittleNew York Court of Appeals · 1889

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. Caminetti v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1943
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  3. Armstrong v. Illinois Bankers Life Assn.Indiana Supreme Court · 1940
  4. Fuchs v. Parsons Construction CompanyNebraska Supreme Court · 1958
  5. Scott-Reitz Ltd. v. Rein Warsaw AssociatesIndiana Court of Appeals · 1995

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