Legal Opinion
Toucey v. New York Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 17, 1941No. Nos. 16, 19PublishedCited by 353 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
These cases were argued in succession and are dealt with in a single opinion because the controlling question in both is the same: Does a federal court have power to stay a proceeding in a state court simply because the claim in controversy has previously been adjudicated in the federal court?
No. 16. In 1935, Toucey brought suit against the New York Life Insurance Company in a Missouri state court. He alleged that in 1924 the company issued him a life insurance policy providing for monthly disability benefits and for the waiver of premiums during disability; that he became disabled in April,…
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