Legal Opinion

Taylor v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided April 6, 1899PublishedCited by 25 opinions

Appeal from a decree of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond pronounced August 12, 1898, in a suit in chancery wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.

1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.

The bill in this case was filed against the Mutual Reserve Eund Life Association, its officers and directors, by the appellant, who sued in behalf of himself and all other policy-holders in that company similarly situated who would come into the suit and contribute to its prosecution.

The bill was afterwards amended for the purpose of giving the names of the president and directors of the association, which were not given in the original bill because unknown, and of making a statute of the State of Mew York an exhibit with the bill.

The allegations of the bill are, in substance, that in the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. North State Copper & Gold Mining Co. v. FieldCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1885
  2. Kansas & Eastern Railroad Construction Co. v. Topeka, Salina & Western RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883

3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Williams v. Green Bay & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Babcock v. FarwellIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
  3. Sauerbrunn v. . Hartford Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1917
  4. State ex rel. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance v. DentonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1910
  5. Boyette v. Preston Motors CorporationSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921

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