Legal Opinion
Kelmell v. Atlas Life Insurance
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 1, 1958No. 21098PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JANVIER, Judge.
This is a suit by the designated beneficiary on two industrial life insurance policies each in the sum of $750. The decedent on whose life the policies were issued was Angle L. Holland, forty-two years of age. The beneficiary was in no way related to the insured.
The defense of the insurers as made out by the pleadings prior to the filing in this Court of an exception of no right or cause of action was that, although at the time at which the policies were applied for, the insured had, for some time, been suffering from heart disease, no mention thereof was made in either…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Guardian Mutual Life Ins. v. HoganIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
- La Casse v. New Orleans, T. & M. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
- New York Life Ins. v. MurtaghSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1915
- State v. WillettIndiana Supreme Court · 1908
- Fisette v. Mutual Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Kelmell v. Atlas Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1959
- McKithern v. Certified Life Assurance Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1963