Legal Opinion
Ratliff v. Kentucky Home Mut. Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 6, 1937No. 8131PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
This suit was on a policy of life insurance on the life of Dennis O. Ratliff, who died February 7, 1935. The annual premium1 ******due August 16, 1930, was not paid, and, the insured exercising none of the optioñs provided for in the policy “on surrender or lapse,” the nonforfeiture provision 2 for automatic extended insurance became applicable. If the policy was in force when the insurer died, it was because of this provision.
As the case was pleaded, if the grant was to be reckoned from August 16, 1930, the premium due date, the extended insurance thus provided for…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Wilkie v. New York Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1908
- Life Casualty Ins. Co. of Tenn. v. WheelerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1936
- Erickson v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1935
- White v. New York Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Joyner v. Jefferson Standard Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1931
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Shira v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1937
- De Long v. Jefferson Standard Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
- Meadows v. Continental Assur. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
- Chilimidos v. Metropolitan Life Ins.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1950
- Travelers Ins. Co. v. BuchananSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939