Legal Opinion

Miller v. Inter-Ocean Casualty Co.

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided May 19, 1931No. 6928PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Lively, Judge:

Margie Miller obtained a judgment of $1,207.25 against Inter-Ocean Casualty Company on an accident policy issued to J. Byrd Miller, and the Casualty Company prosecutes error.

On December 16, 1928, J. Byrd Miller, the insured, accompanied by two companions, started from Edwight, Raleigh County, in a five passenger sedan automobile. About seven o’clock that evening, which was damp and cold, the car became so mired in the mud that Miller could not drive it farther by the power of the engine. Efforts to pull the car, the chassis of which rested on the ground, out of the mud having…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Western Commercial Travelers' Ass'n v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
  2. Johnson v. Federal Life InsuranceNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1931

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Urian v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  2. Finley v. Prudential Life & Casualty InsuranceOregon Supreme Court · 1963
  3. Mitchell v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1942
  4. Standard Life & Accident Insurance Co. v. HardeeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1959
  5. Walden v. Automobile Owners Safety Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1958

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