Legal Opinion
The Praetorians v. Hicks
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 25, 1937No. 6 Div. 88PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.
The suit was upon a policy of accident insurance.
The provision of the policy to be applied is that contained in the clause designated as “Accident Benefits.”
The agreed statement of facts shows that the accident and external injury for which suit was maintained, occurred on February 18, 1936, before the policy had been in force for one month, and that the resultant and immediate condition and injury causing the removal of the eye by a surgical operation was on March 18, 1936, more than one month after issue of the policy on February 7, 1936.
The insistence by the appellee, that…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Cherokee Life Ins, Co. v. BrannumSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
- McGifford v. Protective Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- Northam v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1935
- Empire Life Insurance v. GeeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1912
- Home Ins. Co. v. PettitSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
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3Cited by10 opinions
- American Fidelity & Casualty Company, Inc. v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance v. GoodmanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
- Green v. MerrillSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
- Holloway v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1963
- William Max Ward, a Minor, Suing by His Mother and Next Friend, Jewell Ward v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
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