Legal Opinion

Warren v. New York Life Ins.

District Court, W.D. Louisiana

Decided March 7, 1941No. 368PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PORTERIE, District Judge.

On June 11, 1940, George Barnes, Jr., signed an application to the New York Life Insurance Company for a policy of life insurance in the sum of $2,'500 naming his mother, Madie Huckabaa Warren, the plaintiff herein, as beneficiary. In this application, designated as Part One, he specifically stated: “I have not participated as a passenger or otherwise in aviation or aeronautics.”

Part I of the application provided: “It is mutually agreed as follows: 1. That the insurance hereby applied for shall not go into force unless and until the policy is delivered to and received…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Eames v. Home InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  2. Stonsz v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. New York Life Ins. Co. v. McCarthyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1927
  4. Gonsoulin v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
  5. Valesi v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. New England Mutual Life Insurance Company Of Boston, Massachusetts v. Maxine K. HinkleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1957
  2. Warren v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1942
  3. Powell v. Republic Nat. Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1976
  4. New England Mutual Life Insurance v. HinkleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1957
  5. Harold B. Casey and Floyd S. Casey v. Transamerica Life Insurance and Annuity CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1975

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