Legal Opinion
Ezell v. Atlantic Life Ins.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided August 20, 1953No. Civ. No. 1497PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIES, District Judge.
This is a suit against the Atlantic Life Insurance Company to recover on two policies of insurance issued by said *615defendant on the life of Frank M. Martin.
On December 11, 1951, Frank M. Martin was piloting a private airplane owned by Royal Crown Bottling Company with his wife and child as passengers and so equipped that only one person, namely, the pilot, could participate in the operation of the plane. The plane crashed near Trenton, Florida, resulting in the death of all three occupants.
One of the insurance policies sued on carried a rider designated as “Exclusion of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Baugh v. Metropolitan Life Ins.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1938
- Provident Life & Acc. Ins. v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
- Conaway v. Life Ins. Co.Ohio Supreme Court · 1947
- National Bank of Commerce v. New York Life Ins.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1944
- Preferred Acc. Ins. v. RhodenbaughCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
3Cited by3 opinions
- Scarboro v. Pilot Life Insurance CompanySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1955
- Bernstein v. FIDELITY U. LIFE INS. CO.District Court, E.D. Missouri · 1978
- Butts v. Union Central Life InsuranceDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1967