Security Life Insurance Co. of America v. Dillard
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Lynchburg in a proceeding by motion on a life insurance policy. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtKelly, J.
Mrs. Gertrude Dillard brought suit against the Security Life Insurance Company of America in the Circuit Court of the city of Lynchburg, upon an insurance policy issued on the life of her husband, and recovered a judgment which is now before us for review.
The proceeding was by motion, and the only pleading on the part of the defendant was a statement of its grounds of defense, which will be hereinafter briefly noticed.
A number of questions are presented by the record, all of which were argued orally and in the briefs, but in our view of the case the controlling question arises out of the fact…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Oscanyan v. Arms Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. McCueSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Burt v. Union Central Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Plunkett v. Supreme ConclaveSupreme Court of Virginia · 1906
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