Legal Opinion

National Casualty Co. v. Johnson

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 23, 1953No. 38972PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.

The appellee sued the appellant for certain hospital expenses in the amount of $233.50, alleged to have accrued to her under a policy of insurance issued to her by the appellant. The appellant denied liability upon the ground that certain answers given by the appellee to questions in her application for the policy were false, and that such falsity was a bar to her right of recovery. Upon the trial and at the conclusion of the evidence, the appellant requested and was denied a peremptory instruction. The submission of the case to the jury resulted in a verdict for appellee and judgment was…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance v. MiazzaMississippi Supreme Court · 1908
  2. Planters' Insurance v. MyersMississippi Supreme Court · 1877
  3. Wilson v. ZookMississippi Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Citizens' Nat. Life Ins. v. SwordsMississippi Supreme Court · 1915
  5. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance v. MiazzaMississippi Supreme Court · 1908

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Old Republic Insurance Company v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1969
  2. Sanford v. Federated Guar. Ins. Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Dukes v. South Carolina InsuranceDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1984
  4. Barrett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1971
  5. Poole v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1957

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