Legal Opinion · Dissent
Mehaffey v. . Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided January 10, 1934PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1DissentClarkson, J.
On or about 1 July, 1930, the defendant executed and delivered to Mark L. Mehaffey a policy of life and accident insurance, covering certain employees of the Southern Railway Company and insuring against "the effects resulting directly and exclusively of all other causes from bodily injury sustained by the insured, solely through external, violent and accidental means (excluding suicide or any attempt thereat, while sane or insane)," etc. Mark Mehaffey died 21 July, 1930.
A friend of the deceased, who was with him on the morning of his death, said: "I knew Mark L. Mehaffey. . . . We lived…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- United States Mutual Accident Ass'n v. BarrySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Christ v. Pacific Mutual Life InsuranceIllinois Supreme Court · 1924
- Ætna Life Ins. v. BrandCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1920
- Olinsky v. Railway Mail Assn.California Supreme Court · 1920
- Calkins v. National Travelers Benefit Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1925
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. HemenoverSupreme Court of Colorado · 1937
- Gorham v. . Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1938
- Dalbey v. Equitable L. Assur. Soc. of U.S.Montana Supreme Court · 1937
- Fletcher v. Security Life & Trust Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1941
- Murphy v. Western & Southern Life Ins. Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1953
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