Legal Opinion
O'Brien v. Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 3, 1936No. Appeal, 27PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Baldrige, J.,
The plaintiff in this action of assumpsit is the beneficiary in a certificate of insurance issued by defendant on the life of Patrick O’Brien.
On April 28, 1927, the insured, then 50 years of age and unmarried, arose about 4 a. m., left his boarding house in a suburban section of Scranton, and never returned. About two months later, some boys found the partly decomposed body of a man on West Mountain, not far distant from where O’Brien had lived. Neither the police, coroner, nor anyone else was able to identify it and the undertaker was directed to bury the body where it…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Gould v. Dwelling-House Ins.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Commonwealth v. Monongahela Bridge Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- Hocking v. Howard InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Athens National Bank v. Ridgebury TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
- Barkley v. American National InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1927
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Lardas v. Underwriters InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- Poch v. Equit. L. Assur. Soc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- Poch v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
- O'Connor v. Allemannia Fire InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
- McMeekin v. Prudential InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
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