Legal Opinion
Bennett v. Cosmopolitan Fire Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 30, 1931No. 6039PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, as most men do, not before but . after he had sustained a loss by fire, read his policy. From such reading learning that there were things in it which he had not supposed were there, he filed his bill in equity to reform the policy, and to recover upon it *1018as reformed. The things amiss in the policy as written which he sought by his reformation suit to correct were: (1) That the pol-iey, though originally written in his name, had, by an indorsement made without his consent, been written in his wife’s name; (2) that the concurrent insurance clause, instead of…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Lumber Underwriters of NY v. RifeSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Royal Insurance v. MartinSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Northern Assurance Co. of London v. Grand View Building Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Bills v. Hibernia Insurance CompanyTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Atlas Reduction Co. v. New Zealand Ins.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Fidelity Mut. Life Ins. v. PowellCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1935
- Lawson v. Twin City Fire Ins. Co.District Court, E.D. Kentucky · 1932
- Pacific Mut. Life Ins. v. CunninghamDistrict Court, S.D. Florida · 1932
- National-Ben Franklin Fire Ins. v. StuckeyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
- Ætna Ins. v. C. I. T. Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
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