Wall v. Bankers Life Co.

The primary dispute in this litigation arises over the contractual rights of the plaintiffs-appellants, Joseph Wall et al., William A. Lindly et al., and Curtis Boughton, and the interveners-appellants, J. J. Lynch, L. J. Klemm et al., Arthur B. Hightshoe et al., and Frederick S. Baird, as certificate holders in the Bankers Life Company of Des Moines, a mutual insurance corporation, defendant-appellee. Consolidation was made of the several suits. A solution of the problem, therefore, involves the specification of those rights and the determination as to whether or not there has been any…