Legal Opinion
Frankel v. New York Life Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 3, 1931No. 390PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COTTERAL, Circuit Judge.
The insurance company was obligated by a policy issued to Sam Frankel to pay his representatives or assigns $10,009 in case of his death, and a double indemnity if it should result solely from an external, violent, or accidental cause. He died on -December 7, 1928, as the result of a gunshot wound on the previous day. The company refused to pay the double indemnity, and this suit was brought by the administratrix to recover it. Her petition alleged the death was due to an external, violent, and accidental cause. The answer of the company was that it was due to suicide.
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- Gunning v. CooleySupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Slocum v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Travellers' Insurance v. McConkeySupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- A. B. Small Co. v. Lamborn & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Barrett v. Virginian Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Runyon v. ReidSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1973
- Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. ClemmerCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1935
- British America Assur. Co. v. BowenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1943
- Long v. California-Western States Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1955
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