Legal Opinion

Hicks v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided January 23, 1940No. 8937Published

1Opinion of the Court

Fox, Judge:

On the 28th day of January, 1939, Lela Hicks, as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Lucious Hicks, recovered a judgment against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the sum of $348.00, based upon an insurance policy issued to Lucious Hicks by the defendant company, on October 26, 1936. The judgment was entered upon the verdict of a jury, after a motion to set "aside the verdict had been overruled, to which action of the court the insurance company prosecutes this writ of error.

The insurance policy sued upon is known as an industrial endowment policy, upon…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Hoffman v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. Gibson v. Texas Prudential InsuranceMissouri Court of Appeals · 1935
  3. Turlington v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1927
  4. Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. BlanksSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
  5. Turner v. Supreme Lodge Knights of PythiasSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1933

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