O'Neal v. Sovereign Woodmen of World
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 8. — ACTION BY GERTIE O’NEAL AGAINST THE SOVEREIGN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD ON A CERTIFICATE OF LIFE INSURANCE — Appeal from Ballard Circuit Court. R. J. Bugg, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. — AUTHORITIES CITED. American Guild v. Wyatt, 100 S. W., 266; Southwestern Mutual ife Ins. Co. v. Joseph, 103 Southwestern, 317; Page on Contract, 52; Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Thompson, 14 Ky.
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CASE 8. — ACTION BY GERTIE O’NEAL AGAINST THE SOVEREIGN WOODMEN OF THE WORLD ON A CERTIFICATE OF LIFE INSURANCE — Appeal from Ballard Circuit Court. R. J. Bugg, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. — AUTHORITIES CITED. American Guild v. Wyatt, 100 S. W., 266; Southwestern Mutual ife Ins. Co. v. Joseph, 103 Southwestern, 317; Page on Contract, 52; Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Thompson, 14 Ky. Law Rep., 1400; Carter v. Hibbard, 83 S. W., 112; Hutcheson v. Blakeman, 3 Metcalf, 80; Chiles v. Nelson, 7 Dana, 281; Sanders v. Fruit Co., 144 N. Y., 209; Same Case, 29…
1Opinion of the Court
*70Opinion of the Court by
Judge Barker —
Reversing.
This action was instituted in the Ballard circuit court by the appellant, as the widow of J. P. O’Neal, on the 15th day of December, 1904, seeking to recover from the appellee, Sovereign Woodmen of the World, the sum of $500 which she claims is due her as beneficiary in a certificate of life insurance alleged to have been issued by the appellee through its local camp at Bandana, Ky., upon the life of her deceased husband. The sum named in the certificate is $1,000, but by its terms, where the insured dies within a year from the date of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bunnell v. BunnellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1901
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