Legal Opinion
Lyon v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Assn.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 3, 1939No. 189Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
305 U.S. 484 (1939)
LYON
v.
MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSN.
No. 189.
Supreme Court of United States.
Submitted December 12, 1938.
Decided January 3, 1939.
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT.
Mr. John W. Nance submitted for petitioner.
Messrs. Thomas B. Pryor and Thomas B. Pryor, Jr. submitted for respondent.
2Opinion of the Court · BlackJustice Black
Petitioner, (plaintiff below) brought suit as beneficiary in the District Court against respondent (defendant below) on a health and accident policy issued by respondent in 1926 to petitioner's husband. Plaintiff alleged that the insured was accidentally killed…
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