Legal Opinion

Ozark Mutual Life Ass'n v. Winchester

Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Decided February 2, 1926No. 16455PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

FOSTER, C.

The defendant in error was plaintiff and the plaintiff in error was defendant in the trial court, and the parties will be designated herein as they appeared in the trial court. The action was based on a benefit certificate issued by the defendant to Mirs. M. L.' Winchester on the 1st day of November, 1919, which, among other things, contained the following provision :

“This certificate becomes payable when the member suffers either the loss of an eye, a hand above the wrist, a foot above the ankle, total permanent disability by accident.”

The plaintiff, J. F. Winchester, was…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Foglesong v. Modern Brotherhood of AmericaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1906
  2. Sheanon v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
  3. Continental Casualty Co. v. WynneSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Janney v. Scranton Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
  2. Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. HarrisCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934
  3. Cantor v. Metropolitan L. Ins. Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  4. Fagerlie v. New York Life InsuranceOregon Supreme Court · 1929
  5. New York Life Ins. Co. v. RazzookSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936

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