Legal Opinion
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance v. Lyons
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided January 7, 1936PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTerrell, J.
January 6, 1933, A. D. Lyons applied to the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company for a policy of insurance in the sum of $1,000, payable to his wife, Martha Traylor Lyons, as beneficiary. The application was received by the Company January 9, and the policy was executed and mailed to its Jacksonville office January 10, 1933. The Jacksonville office in turn mailed it to the Company’s soliciting agent at Mulberry, Florida, January 13, where it was received January 15, or 16. Lyons lived fifteen miles in the country and the soliciting agent held the policy until January 26, because he had…
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