Legal Opinion
Mutual Savings Life Insurance v. Cowan
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided October 17, 1960No. Civ. A. No. 4054PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.
This suit involves a contest between Mrs. Katherine B. Miller Cowan, mother of deceased Army Sgt. Billy J. Miller, and Marlene A. Miller, widow of the deceased soldier, over the proceeds of an insurance policy amounting to $4,919 issued by the Mutual Savings Life Insurance Company on May 8, 1957.
The dispute was brought into focus by the filing of a petition for inter-pleader by the insurance company pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 1335. In response to this petition, each of the defendants filed an answer claiming the proceeds of this policy which were paid into…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Atkinson v. Metropolitan Life Ins.Ohio Supreme Court · 1926
- Cronbach v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1925
- Page v. Detroit Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1929
- Davis v. DavisTennessee Supreme Court · 1916
- Life & Casualty Insurance v. CornishCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1958
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Dooley v. James A. Dooley Associates Employees Retirement PlanIllinois Supreme Court · 1982
- Helen B. Cooper v. The United States of America, and Ruby Akers, and Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
- Republic National Life Insurance Company v. Peter C. SackmannCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1963
- Republic National Life Insurance v. SackmannCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1963
- United States v. CruzeDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1970