Legal Opinion

Benefit Ass'n of Railway Employees v. France

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided February 24, 1958No. 5-1460PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

Appellee, Otis France, filed this suit against appellant, Benefit Association of Railway Employees, to recover on a policy of accident and health insurance. There was a judgment for France, and the insurance company- has appealed. For reversal appellant argues three points, namely, (1) failure of the insured to give proper notice of the alleged injury, (2) insufficiency of the evidence to prove total disability continuously within ten days of the accident and (3) that the action was filed prematurely.

The policyholder was a railway brakeman. On the night of the…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. SpencerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1930
  2. Omberg v. United States Mutual Accident Ass'nCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1897
  3. Industrial Mutual Indemnity Co. v. HawkinsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
  4. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. BirdSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1932
  5. Aetna Life Ins. and Pac. Mutual Life Ins. v. OrrSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1943

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. General American Life Insurance Company v. J. H. Yarbrough, J. H. Yarbrough, General American Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
  2. Michael A. Clark v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
  3. Montgomery v. Travelers Protective Ass'n of AmericaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1968
  4. Walden v. Automobile Owners Safety Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1958
  5. Colonial Life & Accident Insurance v. WhitleyCourt of Appeals of Arkansas · 1984

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