Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Banion
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 11, 1936No. 1444PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.
On May. 4, 1934, appellant issued its life policy for $40,000, with double indemnity for accidental death, to one Sewell Combs, with his wife as beneficiary, containing a two-year incontestable clause.
On June 10, 1934, some one shot and killed Combs, and his wife was arrested for murder, bound over, and committed to jail.
On July 2, 1934, Forrest Banion, appellee, was appointed administrator of Sewell Combs’ estate. Combs left two minor adopted children, Lloyd Russell and Harold Bard. They appear here by their guardians.
On November 8, 1934, the wife assigned her…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Enelow v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- New York Mutual Life Insurance v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Shanferoke Coal & Supply Corp. v. Westchester Service Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Di Giovanni v. Camden Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Slocum v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. BanionCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1939
- Dowdell v. BellWyoming Supreme Court · 1970
- Mendez-Bellido v. BD. OF TR. OF DIV. 1181, ATUDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1989
- Metropolitan Baptist Church v. District of Columbia Department of Consumer & Regulatory AffairsDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1998
- General American Life Insurance Company v. ColeDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 1961
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