Legal Opinion
Matthews v. Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 12, 1964No. 40470PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVISON, Justice.
The parties occupy the same relative positions in this court as they did in the lower court and will be referred to by name or as plaintiff and defendants.
Plaintiff, Alice M. Matthews, instituted this action in the lower court against Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company, Joseph McKay Matthews, Jr., and Mary Alice Lankford, as defendants, to establish her ownership of funds due on two contracts between Acacia and plaintiff’s deceased husband, Joseph M. Matthews. The contracts were created in 1938, when plaintiff’s husband became an agent for Acacia, and provided for…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. PlunkettSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
- Saak v. HicksSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1958
- Wills v. DissingSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1960
- Duncan v. BurkdollSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1951
- Evans v. First National Bank of StillwaterSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1944
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Rice v. Office of Servicemembers' Group Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2001
- McSpadden v. MahoneySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1967
- Irma C. Cundick v. J. R. BroadbentCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1967
- In Re the Appeal in Pima County, Juvenile Action No. 35834-1Court of Appeals of Arizona · 1973
- Terry Denise Velez v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Hilda TolsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1983
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