Legal Opinion

Mathews v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided September 5, 1956PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

89 So.2d 641 (1956)

Sally MATHEWS, a minor, by Gladys A. Fraser, her next friend, Petitioner,

v.

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a Corporation, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

September 5, 1956.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1956.

William D. Barfield, Jacksonville, for petitioner.

Howell & Kirby, Jacksonville, for respondent.

ROBERTS, Justice.

We here review, on certiorari, an order of a circuit court affirming a directed verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant insurance company entered in a suit on a life insurance policy filed by the plaintiff, the beneficiary thereunder, in…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. BuntingSupreme Court of Florida · 1938
  2. Wilson v. McCoy Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1954
  3. Gulf Life Insurance Company v. GreenSupreme Court of Florida · 1955
  4. Brubaker v. Beneficial Standard Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1955
  5. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance v. ElmoreMississippi Supreme Court · 1916

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. Combs v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1983
  2. Margie C. Barnes v. Atlantic & Pacific Life Insurance Company of America, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
  3. Taylor v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1975
  4. State v. SmithDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1960
  5. City of Winter Park v. JonesDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980

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