Legal Opinion
Provident Trust Co. v. Equitable Life Assurance Society
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 18, 1934No. Appeal, 160PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Linn,
Defendant appeals from judgment for plaintiff on statutory demurrer in a suit on an insurance policy, dated August 10, 1926. * The regular death benefits of $3,000 have been paid; this suit is for an additional $3,000 on the provision for “Double Indemnity in Case of Death from Accident.”
The insured, Francis It. Ehle, as the statement avers, “lost his life as a result of bodily injuries caused solely by accidental means on the 5th day of November, 1931, in a crash of an aeroplane maintained and operated by the Ludington Line, a corporation engaged in the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Virginia v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Masonic Accident Insurance v. JacksonIndiana Supreme Court · 1929
- Benefit Ass'n Railway Employees v. HaydenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1927
- Price v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of Florida · 1929
- Gibbs v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1931
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3Cited by14 opinions
- National Bank of Commerce v. New York Life Ins.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1944
- Day v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1936
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. DyessSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1937
- Mayer v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1934
- King v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
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