Legal Opinion

New York Life Ins. v. Dorsett

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 27, 1922No. 25063Published

Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; B. H. Pavy, Judge. Suit by the New York Life Insurance Company against Mrs. Sallie Dorsett and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

1Opinion

On Rehearing;

By the WHOLE COURT. LEOHE, .T.

A rehearing was granted herein for two reasons; first, because the main question at issue in this proceeding, the same as that involved in the case of Mrs. Sallie Dorsett, Administratrix, v. L. E. Thomas, State Bank Examiner et al., No. 24751 (La.) 92 South. 734,1 was reopened for consideration by the granting of a rehearing in that case; and, secondly, because, although plaintiff had filed a brief in support of its demand, that brief through error or inadvertence was not inserted in the record, and escaped the attention of the court when the case…

Also in this document: Dissent · O’Niell; Dissent · O’Niell.

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Groves v. SentellSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Forman v. Sewerage & Water BoardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
  3. Dorsett v. ThomasSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922
  4. Dunlap v. WhitmerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
  5. Dreifus v. Colonial Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911

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