Succession of Holmes v. Continental Casualty Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Appeal from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division “E,” No. 104,197. Hon. G-. H. Theard, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
His Honor, CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:
Plaintiffs claim of defendant the amount of an accident policy of $1000.00, taken out by the deceased, Edward Holmes, in the name of Rosa Holmes, his wife. The plaintiffs are the administrators of the succession of the deceased and his father and brother and sister. They aver that they are the sole heirs of Edward Holmes and that he was never legally married and that he died childless; and that they are therefore entitled to recover the-policy.
The defense is that the policy is void by reason of false…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Jeffries v. Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. FranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Equitable Life Assurance Society v. PatersonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1870
- Standard Life & Accident Insurance v. MartinIndiana Supreme Court · 1893
- Brignac v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
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