Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Decided December 17, 1907. Alonzo K. Vickers wrote the opinion for the court.

232 Ill. 37 · Cited 55 times

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• Riggs v. . Palmer · 22 N.E. 188
• Kochersperger v. Drake · 167 Ill. 122
• Holdom v. Ancient Order of United Workmen · 159 Ill. 619
• Purdy v. . New York New Haven R.R. Co. · 61 N.Y. 353

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• Phoenix Insurance v. Rosen · 949 N.E.2d 639
• Reed v. Farmers Insurance Group · 720 N.E.2d 1052
• People ex rel. Watseka Telephone Co. v. Emmerson · 302 Ill. 300
• Simmons v. United States · 120 F. Supp. 641
• Sanders v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · 138 P.2d 239
• Wolff v. General Casualty Company of America · 361 P.2d 330
• Southern Life Health Ins. Co. v. Whitfield · 190 So. 276
• Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Petril · 43 F. Supp. 768
• Afro-American Life Ins. Co. v. Jones · 151 So. 405
• Modern Woodmen of America v. Kehoe · 25 So. 2d 463
• Corey v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance · 178 S.E. 525
• Wilcox v. Bierd · 162 N.E. 170
• Wall v. Pfanschmidt · 265 Ill. 180
• Illinois Bankers Life Ass'n v. Collins · 173 N.E. 465
• Furst v. Brady · 31 N.E.2d 606
• Roanoke Agency, Inc. v. Edgar · 461 N.E.2d 1365
• Taylor v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance · 142 N.E.2d 5
• Jones v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor · 236 Ill. 113
• Stroh v. Blackhawk Holding Corp. · 272 N.E.2d 1
• Welsh v. James · 95 N.E.2d 872

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