Legal Opinion
Kukuruza v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 24, 1931PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This is an action of contract to recover $5,000 on an insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of Awdokia Kukuruza, the wife of the plaintiff, and payable to the plaintiff as beneficiary upon her death. On motion of the defendant a verdict for it'was directed, and the plaintiff excepted. The case is reported on the agreement that “if the trial judge was right in allowing the defendant’s *148motion and directing a verdict for the defendant, judgment is to be entered for the defendant, otherwise judgment is to be entered for the plaintiff in the sum of $5,000 and interest from June…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Lumber Underwriters of NY v. RifeSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Rocci v. Massachusetts Accident Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Shea v. Massachusetts Benefit Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Shapiro v. Security InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Lopardi v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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- Minnesota Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. CostCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1934
- Santarpio v. New York Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
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