Legal Opinion

Lee v. Southern Life Health Ins. Co.

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided October 30, 1923No. 6 Div. 266PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBricken, P. J.

Action on a policy of life insurance. The complaint is substantially in Code form. By pleas, which are set out in the report of the case, defendant, appellee here pleads: (1) That, the beneficiary under the policy unlawfully, intentionally, and feloniously took the life of the insured prior to the assignment of the policy to the appellant. (2) That the insured was murdered by the beneficiary in the policy, and the policy subsequently assigned to appellant.' (3) A provision of the policy excepting death from a malicious act of the beneficiary as a risk covered by the policy and an allegation…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Riggs v. . PalmerNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
  2. New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  3. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. LovejoySupreme Court of Alabama · 1917
  4. Slocum v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
  5. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1920

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. v. MurphySupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  2. De Zoteel v. Mutual Life InsuranceSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1932
  3. Austin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1942
  4. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. HicksOhio Court of Appeals · 1931
  5. Protective Life Ins. Co. v. LinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944

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