Legal Opinion
Harding v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 24, 1939No. 17089PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JANVIER; Judge.
Ellen Harding sues as beneficiary on a life insurance policy in the sum of $1,000, which she alleges was issued by defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, on the life of Wesley Johnson, but which policy, she avers, remained in the possession of the said company and was. never delivered. Johnson died on May 18,' 1929, and plaintiff alleges that, for no valid reason, payment under the policy has been refused.
Defendant company denies that any such insurance contract came into existence, though it admits that application for a policy in the sum of $1,000 was made and that…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Duffie v. Bankers' Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1913
- Brown v. Continental Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
- Security Ins. Co. of New Haven v. CameronSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1922
- Columbian Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. LemmonsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1923
- Gonsoulin v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Zayc v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
- Moore v. Palmetto State Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1952
- Hayes v. Durham Life Insurance CompanySupreme Court of Virginia · 1957
- Thomas v. Life Ins. Co. of GeorgiaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
- Ronald Lamarque and Lamarque Ford, Inc. v. Massachusetts Indemnity & Life Insurance Co., and Equifax Services, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
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