Legal Opinion

United States Steel Corp. v. Wood

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided March 25, 1958No. 6 Div. 463Published

1Opinion

On Rehearing.

Appellant’s brief on application for rehearing states:

“ * * * The Court’s analogy to the construction of an insurance policy, as based on the Drummond and Usher decision, is misleading and unsound. Sums payable to beneficiaries of an insurance policy are paid wholly from funds accumulated from premiums paid solely by the policy holders ‘who bought the protection’. This is not true in respect to funds from which unemployment compensation benefits are paid. The greater portion of such funds does not accumulate from the fractional contribution by employees but from taxes levied…

2Cases cited33 opinions

  1. Unemployment Compensation Comm'n of Alaska v. AragonSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Stockwell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
  3. City Delivery Co. v. HenrySupreme Court of Alabama · 1903
  4. Hindman v. First Nat. Bank of LouisvilleCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1902
  5. Ford Motor Co. v. AbercrombieSupreme Court of Georgia · 1950

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