Legal Opinion
Gay v. United Benefit Life Insurance Company
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 10, 1957No. 43170PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMITER, Justice.
As beneficiary, Mrs. Jessie Gay seeks to recover herein the proceeds (some $8,000) • of an insurance policy issued by the United Benefit Life Insurance Company upon the ljfp .of Wilma Earl Gay, her husband. The special defense urged is that untrue material-statements made by the insured in the application for the insurance rendered the contract null and void.
■ The policy was issued on December 1, 1953 without a medical examination. In the application Gay, when answering certain propounded questions, denied that he had ever been afflicted with any heart or circulatory disease.…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Cunningham v. Penn Mut. Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
- Valesi v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
- Cole v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- Goff v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
- Carroll v. Mutual Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1929
3Cited by46 opinions
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- Darby v. Safeco Ins. Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1989
- Fruge v. Woodmen of World Life Insurance SocietyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1965
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