Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. v. Murphy

Decided January 19, 1933. Arthur B. Foster wrote the opinion for the court.

146 So. 387 · Cited 65 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Lovejoy · 78 So. 299
• United Order of the Golden Cross v. Overton · 83 So. 59
• Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NY · 169 U.S. 139
• Burt v. Union Central Life Insurance · 187 U.S. 362
• Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias v. Overton · 82 So. 443
• Page v. Skinner · 125 So. 36
• Riggs v. . Palmer · 22 N.E. 188
• Schindler v. Royal Insurance Co. · 179 N.E. 711
• Sparks v. McCreary · 156 Ala. 382
• Craft v. Standard Acc. Ins. Co. · 123 So. 271
• Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Dinsmore · 144 So. 21
• Tillis v. Smith Sons Lumber Co. · 188 Ala. 122
• Sovereign Camp W. O. W. v. Gunn · 140 So. 410
• Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Bryant · 144 So. 367
• Smith Bros. v. Agee & Co. · 178 Ala. 627
• Norton v. Bumpus · 127 So. 907
• Maxwell v. Sherman · 172 Ala. 626
• Brown v. Patterson · 108 So. 16
• Shearin v. Pizitz · 94 So. 92
• Roney v. Commercial Union Fire Ins. Co. · 143 So. 571
• Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. Benson Hardware Co. · 143 So. 570
• Woods v. Wood · 122 So. 835
• Wood v. Traders' Securities Co. · 130 So. 398
• Birmingham Railway, Right & Power Co. v. Yates · 169 Ala. 381
• Carlisle v. Killebrew · 89 Ala. 329

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• Titan Indem. Co. v. Riley · 679 So. 2d 701
• Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. of New York v. Murphy · 166 So. 604
• Travelers Insurance Company v. Thompson · 163 N.W.2d 289
• Weir v. United States · 716 F. Supp. 574
• Ex Parte Thicklin · 824 So. 2d 723
• Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Harris · 153 So. 870
• Drennen Motor Car Co. v. Smith · 160 So. 761
• Thicklin v. Fantasy Mobile Homes, Inc. · 824 So. 2d 723
• Bell v. Preferred Life Assurance Society · 320 U.S. 238
• Asato v. Furtado · 474 P.2d 288
• O'Bar v. Southern Life Health Ins. Co. · 168 So. 580
• Figgins v. Advance America Cash Advance Centers of Michigan, Inc. · 482 F. Supp. 2d 861
• Sovereign Camp W. O. W. v. Gunn · 150 So. 491
• Tennessee Odin Ins. Co. v. Dickey · 228 S.W.2d 73
• St. Paul Ins. Co. of Illinois v. Cromeans · 771 F. Supp. 349
• Mutual Sav. Life Ins. Co. v. Osborne · 23 So. 2d 867
• Home Ins. Co. v. Jones · 165 So. 211
• Jacksonville State Bank v. Barnwell · 481 So. 2d 863
• Brown v. Mountain Lakes Resort, Inc. · 521 So. 2d 24
• Balls v. Crump · 56 So. 2d 108
• New York & Cuba Mail SS Co. v. Continental Ins. Co. · 32 F. Supp. 251
• Volunteer State Life Ins. Co. v. Weaver · 167 So. 268
• American Life Ins. Co. v. Aladdin Temple Ben. Ass'n · 191 So. 903
• Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. v. Lloyd · 10 So. 2d 292
• Lollar v. Jones · 157 So. 209

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