Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Blue

Decided March 19, 1931. Virgil Bouldin wrote the opinion for the court.

133 So. 707 · Cited 56 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.

• Travelers' Ins. Co. v. Plaster · 98 So. 909
• United States Casualty Co. v. Perryman · 82 So. 462
• Hawkins v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance · 218 N.W. 313
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Noe · 31 S.W.2d 689
• New York Life Ins. Co. v. McLean · 118 So. 753
• Ellis v. New York Life Ins. Co. · 106 So. 689

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• Protective Life Ins. Co. v. Hale · 161 So. 248
• Woodall v. National Life and Accident Ins. Co. · 269 Ala. 606
• Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Danley · 5 So. 2d 743
• New York Life Ins. Co. v. Torrance · 141 So. 547
• Hoover v. Mutual Trust Life Insurance · 282 N.W. 781
• Erreca v. Western States Life Insurance · 19 Cal. 2d 388
• Shears v. All States Life Ins. Co. · 5 So. 2d 808
• Crowe v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. · 154 So. 52
• New England Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurst · 199 A. 822
• Pearlman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 9 A.2d 432
• Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States v. Davis · 164 So. 86
• Richards v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 55 P.2d 1067
• Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Halsey · 160 So. 248
• Woods v. Central States Life Insurance · 132 Neb. 261
• Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the U.S. v. Watts · 160 So. 713
• Jones v. Connecticut General Life Insurance · 173 S.E. 259
• Cassens v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 154 So. 522
• DeVore v. Mutual Life Insurance · 64 P.2d 1071
• Gusaeff v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance · 192 A. 528
• Mitchell v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · 172 S.E. 495
• Graham v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States · 266 N.W. 820
• John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Beaty · 162 So. 281
• Cannon v. Ormet Corp. · 479 So. 2d 555
• Protective Life Ins. Co. v. Wallace · 161 So. 256
• Mitchell v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · 172 S.E. 497

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