Afro-American Life Ins. v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. Gaston Gunter. Action by Lowndes W. Adams against the Afro-American Life Insurance Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SAYRE, J.(1) Suit on a policy of life insurance. The insured had taken out the policy and caused it to be made payable at her death to plaintiff in the court below, appellee here. The cases are unanimous to the effect that one has an unlimited insurable interest in his own life, and therefore that one may take out a policy on his own life and make it payable to whom he will. — Cases cited on pages 252 and 253 of 1 Cooley’s Briefs. There is, hence, no question as to whether plaintiff had an insurable interest in the life of the insured.(2) But it is urged that plaintiff should not have been…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Standard Life & Accident Insurance v. MartinIndiana Supreme Court · 1893
- Hutchinson v. First National Bank of Michigan CityIndiana Supreme Court · 1892
- Supreme Lodge, Ancient Order United Workmen v. HutchinsonIndiana Court of Appeals · 1893
- Berdan v. Milwaukee Mutual Life-InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1904
- Ashford v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903
3Cited by11 opinions
- National Life Accident Ins. Co. v. BridgeforthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1929
- Allen v. Standard Ins.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1916
- Travelers' Ins. Co. v. WhitmanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918
- National Life Accident Ins. Co. v. AlexanderSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- Haase v. First Nat. BankSupreme Court of Alabama · 1919
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