Legal Opinion
Wilma Sparks v. Shelter Life Insurance Company, Wilma Sparks v. Shelter Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 8, 1988No. 87-1768, 87-1861PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Shelter Life Insurance Company (Shelter) appeals from the district court’s 1 order denying its motion for summary judgment and granting Wilma Sparks’s motion for partial summary judgment in Sparks’s action to recover insurance proceeds. Sparks cross-appeals from the denial of her motion for a new trial on the portion of the case tried to a jury. We affirm.
On April 26, 1983 Matt Raper, an agent for Shelter, procured from Sparks’s husband an application for a $50,000 policy of life insurance naming Mrs. Sparks as beneficiary. In conjunction with the completion of…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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