Legal Opinion
Succession of Dekan v. Life Ins. Co. of Virginia
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 25, 1937No. 16515PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESTERFIELD, Judge.
Ernest Dekan died in the city of New Orleans April 26, 1935. Albert W. New-lin, public administrator, qualified as the administrator of Dekan’s succession and in that capacity brought this suit against the Life Insurance Company of Virginia claiming $235 as the proceeds of an industrial life insurance policy which had been issued to Dekan by the defendant company, without medical examination, on December 18, 1934. To this suit the defendant company answered, denying liability upon the ground that a fraud had been committed on the company by Dekan who, it is averxed,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Brown v. Continental Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
- Shuff v. Life Casualty Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1927
- Provident Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Philadelphia v. ParsonsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1934
- Eagan v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1934
- New York Life Ins. v. StewartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Gleason v. Bankers Life & Casualty CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1962
- Bordelon v. National Life Accident Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1939
- Geddes & Moss Undertaking & Embalming Co. v. First Nat. Life Ins.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1938
- Succession of Ryan v. Life & Casualty Ins. Co. of TennesseeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1940
- Lapeyrouse v. Orleans Industrial Life, Etc., Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1941
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