Legal Opinion
Puritan Life Insurance Co. v. Guess
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided July 20, 1979No. 3807PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., CONNOR and MATTHEWS, JJ., DIMOND, Senior Justice, and CARLSON, Superior Court Judge. DIMOND, Senior Justice.
Puritan Life Insurance Company, through its agent William Barnes, had solicited Eugene Guess to purchase an additional life insurance policy during the years 1974 and 1975. Barnes eventually was successful, and on March 10, 1975, Guess met with Barnes and agreed to purchase a $100,-000 life insurance policy. Guess signed an application for the insurance and gave Barnes authority to pick up what Barnes referred to as a “deposit” from the bookkeeper of…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Collister v. Nationwide Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Malvo Ex Rel. Malvo v. J. C. Penney Co.Alaska Supreme Court · 1973
- National Life and Accident Insurance Co. v. BlaggTexas Supreme Court · 1969
- Gaunt v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
- Stordahl v. Government Employees Insurance Co.Alaska Supreme Court · 1977
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Nile T. Deland v. Old Republic Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Dobosz v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1983
- Starry v. Horace Mann Insurance Co.Alaska Supreme Court · 1982
- Hemenway v. MFA Life InsuranceNebraska Supreme Court · 1982
- Poston v. National Fidelity Life InsuranceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1990
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