Legal Opinion
Nellie Tuttle Wiles v. Nationwide Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1964No. 9321_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, District Judge.
Application of credit merchandising methods to the sale of life insurance occasioned this controversy as to lapse of a life insurance policy for nonpayment of premiums. We think the district court, with the aid of a jury, fairly and according to law determined that the policy had not lapsed.
The widow of James E. Wiles, who died February 22, 1963, brought this action against Nationwide to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy on her husband’s life in the amount of $13,-205.00. Mr. J. Craig Steed, Nationwide agent at Greensboro, sold Mr. Wiles the policy in May…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Horton v. Home Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
- Beaty Shopping Center, Inc. v. The Monarch Insurance Company of Ohio, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Aldridge v. Greensboro Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1927
- Cauley v. General American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1941
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Columbia Nitrogen Corporation v. Royster CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1971
- Rosario v. Atlantic Southern Ins.Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1968
- Herndon v. Massachusetts General Life InsuranceDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1998
- Seidman v. Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
- Lineberger v. Hickory Volunteer Rescue SquadNorth Carolina Industrial Commission · 1994
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