Legal Opinion

Ivory v. Reserve Life Insurance Company

South Dakota Supreme Court

Decided March 11, 1960No. File 9789PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, P. J.

This action was brought against the Reserve Life Insurance Company by plaintiff -claiming indemnity for hospital and surgical expenses. Plaintiff had a verdict for $734 and defendant appeals from the judgment rendered thereon.

Defendant denied liability in its answer alleging that plaintiff made certain false and fraudulent statements in his application, for tlhie insurance upon which the defendant had relied and that if his answers to questions in the application had been truthful the policy would not have been issued. George Goetz, an agent represientating the defendant 'company, solicited…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Penn Mut. Life Ins. v. Mechanics' Savings Bank & Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1896
  2. Geer v. Union Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
  3. Volunteer State Life Ins. v. RichardsonTennessee Supreme Court · 1922
  4. Life Benefit, Inc. v. ElfringSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1942
  5. Anderson v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1934

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Tsosie v. Foundation Reserve Insurance CompanyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1967
  2. De Smet Farm Mutual Insurance Co. of South Dakota v. BusskohlSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 2013
  3. Bushfield v. World Mutual InsuranceSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1963
  4. Bushfield v. WORLD MUT. HEALTH & ACC. INS. CO. OF PASouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1963
  5. Braaten Ex Rel. Estate of Braaten v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1981

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