Legal Opinion
Reese v. American National Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 14, 1949No. 12613PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLER, Circuit Judge.
On August 1, 1946, Johnny Elmo Reese, then aged twenty-two years, applied for a $10,000.00 life insurance policy with double indemnity provisions, and received from an agent of the Appellee insurance company a receipt for the sum of $147.30 in cash, which receipt contained the following pertinent conditions:
“Conditions: One * * * Enough of the insurance applied for in such application to make the Company’s aggregate insurance on the above named person not over $15,000 shall become effective from the date of this receipt and subject to the provisions thereof and of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- New York Life Ins. v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1922
- Jacobs v. New York Life InsuranceMississippi Supreme Court · 1893
3Cited by4 opinions
- Dove v. Ark. National Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1965
- Argonaut Insurance v. Industrial Accident CommissionCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961
- Maldonado v. First National Life Insurance Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1968
- Prudence Mutual Casualty Insurance v. SwitzerMississippi Supreme Court · 1965