Legal Opinion
Lubin v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 15, 1945No. Gen. No. 42,933PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Sullivan
delivered the opinion of the court.
By this appeal plaintiff, Alfred Lubin, seeks to reverse a final order dismissing this action for want of equity, which order was entered on the motion of defendant, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
Nineteen separate plaintiffs, including the plaintiff herein, filed nineteen separate suits in equity against nineteen mutual life insurance companies, each plaintiff, a former policyholder, claiming to represent in each suit all other former policyholders who were similarly situated in respect to the defendant…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Canada Malting Co. v. Paterson Steamships, Ltd.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Rogers v. Guaranty Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Greeff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Babcock v. FarwellIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
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