Legal Opinion
Vargas v. Pacific National Life Assurance Company
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided May 20, 1968No. 8487PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOISE, Justice.
We are here called upon to determine the legal effect of a “conditional premium receipt” issued to an applicant for life insurance which provides that under certain conditions the insurance shall be in effect from the date of application. The problem is one which has been many times before the courts of this country, see Annot., 2 A.L.R.2d 943 (1948), but we have never been called upon to consider it.
The facts in the instant case are not in dispute. They disclose that on October 18, 1965, E. Jaramillo (a defendant-appellee, hereinafter referred to as “agent”), an agent…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Allen v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
- Ransom v. Penn Mutual Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1954
- Jones v. International Union of Operating EngineersNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1963
- Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. LammeNevada Supreme Court · 1967
- Mofrad v. New York Life Ins. CoCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1953
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Jaramillo v. Providence Washington InsuranceNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1994
- Thompson v. Occidental Life Ins. Co. of Cal.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1977
- Ivy Nelson Grain Co. v. Commercial U. Ins. Co. of NYNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1969
- Baca v. New Mexico State Highway DepartmentNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1971
- Atlas Assurance Co. v. General Builders, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1979
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