Legal Opinion
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Clark
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 1, 1927No. Docket No. 3192PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESTON, J., pro tem.
The plaintiff, Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, a corporation, brought this action in interpleader to compel the defendants to litigate between themselves their respective claims to the proceeds of a life insurance policy upon the life of William C. Clark, deceased.
The case was tried by the court sitting without a jury and the court decided that the proceeds of said policy belonged to the estate of William C. Clark, and that Eva Powell had no interest therein. From the judgment following this decision Eva Powell prosecutes this appeal.
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2Cases cited29 opinions
- Basket v. HassellSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Hibberd v. SmithCalifornia Supreme Court · 1885
- New York Life Insurance v. Bank of ItalyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1923
- Union Mutual Life Insurance v. BroderickCalifornia Supreme Court · 1925
- Denigan v. Hibernia Savings & Loan SocietyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1899
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Walters v. MarlerCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1978
- Davis v. Modern Industrial BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1939
- Odone v. MarzocchiCalifornia Supreme Court · 1949
- Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance v. BirkelundCalifornia Supreme Court · 1946
- Estate of McSweeneyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1954
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