Legal Opinion

Shears v. All States Life Ins. Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 22, 1942No. 7 Div. 652PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIVINGSTON, Justice.

This action is to recover total and permanent disability benefits claimed to be due under a group policy of insurance and certificate issued by appellee, defendant in the court below, on April 1, 1929, upon the life of appellant, N. C. Shears, plaintiff in the ■court below, and other employees of the Southern Manganese Corporation, and kept in force by its successor corporations, including the Monsanto Chemical Company, by whom appellant was employed at the time he allegedly became permanently and totally disabled.

The master or group policy is referred to .as master policy…

2Cases cited57 opinions

  1. Railway Co. v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1878
  2. Tayloe v. Merchants' Fire Ins. Co. of BaltimoreSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
  3. Littlejohn v. . ShawNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
  4. Smithart v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1934
  5. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. BlueSupreme Court of Alabama · 1931

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. First Alabama Bank Of Montgomery, N.A. v. First State Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
  2. Cudd v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals of South Carolina · 1983
  3. Harrison v. Insurance Company of North AmericaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  4. Walker v. Occidental Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
  5. Police & Firemen's Ins. Ass'n v. MullinsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953

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