Legal Opinion
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. v. Barron
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 7, 1944No. 14815PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bell, Chief Justice.
Before this policy was issued in 1925, the Court of Appeals had rendered two decisions dealing with similar policies, Whitton v. American National Life Ins. Co., 17 Ga. App. 525 (87 S. E. 827), decided in 1916, and Parten v. Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co., 30 Ga. App. 245 (117 S. E. 772), decided in 1923. It is contended for the insurer that under the rulings in these cases, a recovery in the instant case was unauthorized as a matter of law, and that since these were the only Georgia decisions that had dealt with such contracts before the present policy was issued, it…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Lumbra v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Miller v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Cato v. Ætna Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1927
- Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. SouthSupreme Court of Georgia · 1934
- Baker v. Richmond City Mill WorksSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Giddens v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2006
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. SewellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1967
- Pomerance v. Berkshire Life Insurance Co. of AmericaCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2007
- Department of Transportation v. KendricksCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1979
- Lemieux v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Georgia, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1994
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