Legal Opinion
Kansas City Life Ins. Co. v. Cox
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 6, 1939No. 7803PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
This suit is brought -to reform a life insurance policy and enforce it for the benefit of the appellee, Memory Townsend Cox.
On March 16, 1934, L. E. Cowden, a licensed agent of the appellant, Kansas City Life Insurance Company, in Tennessee but not in Alabama, procured from Stuart Gray Cox, deceased husband of ap-pellee, at Athens, Alabama, his signed application for a policy of life insurance on his life in the sum of $5,000, with the ap-pellee as beneficiary.
Cowden had defective hearing and A. L. Caughran, who accompanied him, filled in the assured’s answers on part…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- McMaster v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Snell v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Sinclair v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
- Walden v. SkinnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Henderson v. Carbondale Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
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3Cited by11 opinions
- United States v. WolfsonDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1971
- Ohio Casualty Ins. v. CallawayCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1943
- United States v. Lennox Metal Manufacturing Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
- Flowers v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
- Prudential Ins. Co. Of America v. StricklandCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1951
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