Dougherty v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Decided December 31, 1934. Irving Lehman wrote the opinion for the court.

193 N.E. 897 · Cited 119 times

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• Russian Reinsurance Co. v. Stoddard · 147 N.E. 703
• Vladikavkazsky Railway Co. v. New York Trust Co. · 189 N.E. 456
• Oetjen v. Central Leather Co. · 246 U.S. 297
• Underhill v. Hernandez · 168 U.S. 250
• Russian Volunteer Fleet v. United States · 282 U.S. 481
• Hutchison v. Ross · 187 N.E. 65
• Security Savings Bank v. California · 263 U.S. 282
• Petrogradsky Mejdunarodny Kommerchesky Bank v. National City Bank · 170 N.E. 479
• Sokoloff v. National City Bank · 164 N.E. 745
• Wulfsohn v. Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic · 138 N.E. 24
• Severnoe Securities Corp. v. London & Lancashire Insurance · 174 N.E. 299
• Zimmermann v. Sutherland, Alien Property Custodian · 274 U.S. 253
• Fred S. James & Co. v. Second Russian Insurance · 146 N.E. 369
• Parker v. Hoppe · 178 N.E. 550
• Matter of People (First Russian Ins. Co.) · 175 N.E. 118
• Succession of Serralles v. Esbri · 200 U.S. 103
• Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · 191 N.E. 726
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