Legal Opinion

Life Insurance Co. v. Spratley

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided September 20, 1897PublishedCited by 13 opinions

FROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. John L. T. Sneed, Ch.

1Opinion of the CourtBeard, J.

The complainant is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut to carry on a life insurance business, and has its principal situs in Hartford, in that State. For many years prior, to the year 1894, it actively prosecuted its work in the State of Tennessee, soliciting applications for life insurance and issuing policies upon such applications as were approved by its officers. In the year 1889, and afterwards in 1893, an agent of this company was in the State of Tennessee, and, by his solicitations, induced one B. R. Spratley, a citizen of this State, to apply for…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Paul v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
  2. St. Clair v. CoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  3. In Re HohorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  4. Mexican Central Railway Co. v. PinkneySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  5. Pope v. Terre Haute Car & Manufacturing Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Guthrie v. Indemnity Ass'nTennessee Supreme Court · 1899
  2. Groel v. United Electric Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1905
  3. Venner v. Denver Union Water Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1907
  4. Tucker v. International Salt CompanyTennessee Supreme Court · 1961
  5. Alwood v. Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1925

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