Legal Opinion

Flittner v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

California Court of Appeal

Decided March 27, 1916No. Civ. No. 1629PublishedCited by 22 opinions

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. Adolphus E. Graupner, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtKerrigan, J.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action in which the plaintiff, having disaffirmed a contract of insurance entered into by him with the defendant while a minor under the age of eighteen years, sought to recover the amount of premiums paid thereunder prior to the commencement of this suit.

On the eleventh day of February, 1910, the defendant, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of New York, issued to the plaintiff, Frank W. Flittner, a policy of insurance insuring his life in favor of his mother for the sum of ten…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Equitable Life Assurance Society v. ClementsSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. McCueSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  3. Fidelity Mutual Life Ass'n v. HarrisTexas Supreme Court · 1900
  4. Union National Bank of Chicago v. ChapmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
  5. Franklin Life Insurance v. GalliganSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1903

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Warner Bros. Pictures v. BrodelCalifornia Supreme Court · 1948
  2. Illinois Fuel Co. v. Mobile & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1928
  3. Blair v. New York Life Insurance Co.California Court of Appeal · 1940
  4. Hurley v. Southern California Edison Co., LimitedCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1950
  5. Ostroff v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939

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