Legal Opinion

Hibbard v. North American Life Insurance

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided March 8, 1927PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtVinje, C. J.

Plaintiff seeks to recover on the terms of the policy, relying upon the language ás filled out in *317the portion relating to options found on page three, and calls attention to the rule that portions written into a contract generally control as against the printed portions thereof, especially when the former are in words and the latter in figures, and that insurance contracts should be construed favorably to the insured. The defendant bases its defense on the terms of the policy, relying upon the table of loan and cash surrender values, and invokes the general rule that if an unambiguous…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wisconsin Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Bank v. WilkinWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Columbian Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. BlackCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1929
  2. Baldwin v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1961
  3. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. OseasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1941
  4. Neary v. General American Life InsuranceNebraska Supreme Court · 1942
  5. Metropolitan Life Insurance v. HenriksenAppellate Court of Illinois · 1955

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