Legal Opinion
Jeffers v. Bankers' Life Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 14, 1934No. 6996PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
The suit is on a five-year term policy. The defense, lapse for failure to pay the second premium, prevailed below. Plaintiff here, complaining of the instructed verdict she suffered, insists that, notwithstanding his failure to pay the second premium as agreed, the policy was in force on October 13,1925; when her husband died. Her claim is that on September 12, .1925, the date to which, by extension agreements, the right to pay the second premium had been carried, a dividend or dividends had accrued to the policy sufficient to purchase extended insurance beyond the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Mutual Life Insurance v. PhinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Southland Life Ins. v. HopkinsTexas Commission of Appeals · 1922
- McCampbell v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1923
- Harvey v. Union Central Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1930
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Rosenthal v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1938
- Ratliff v. Kentucky Home Mut. Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
- Willingham v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1936
- Kansas City Life Ins. v. FreemanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941