Preston v. National Life & Accident Insurance

Decided June 12, 1943. R. C. Bell wrote the opinion for the court.

26 S.E.2d 439 · Cited 50 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.

• Commercial Casualty Insurance v. Jeffers · 24 S.E.2d 815
• Life & Casualty Insurance v. Gaines · 59 Ga. App. 545
• Vaughn v. National Life & Accident Insurance · 5 S.E.2d 238
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Becraft · 12 N.E.2d 952
• MacDonald v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 155 A. 491
• New York Life Insurance v. Kuhlenschmidt · 33 N.E.2d 340
• Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Bell · 49 Ga. App. 640
• Jefferson Standard Life Insurance v. Henderson · 37 Ga. App. 704
• National Life & Accident Insurance v. Martin · 35 Ga. App. 1
• Interstate Life & Accident Co. v. Bess · 35 Ga. App. 723
• New York Life Insurance v. Buchberg · 228 N.W. 770
• Brown v. Mutual Life Insurance · 29 Ga. App. 794
• National Life & Accident Insurance v. Smith · 34 Ga. App. 242
• Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Marsh · 60 Ga. App. 431
• Morgan v. Colt Co. · 34 Ga. App. 630
• Hirsch v. Shepherd Lumber Corp. · 20 S.E.2d 575
• Sovereign Camp of Woodmen of the World v. Parker · 36 Ga. App. 695
• Life & Casualty Insurance v. Burkett · 38 Ga. App. 328
• Federal Life Insurance v. Summergill · 45 Ga. App. 829
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Busby · 42 Ga. App. 808
• Southern Life Insurance v. White · 60 Ga. App. 414
• Lockett v. National Life & Accident Insurance · 18 S.E.2d 550
• Firemen's Insurance v. Parmer · 51 Ga. App. 916
• Bankers Health & Life Insurance v. Kimberly · 60 Ga. App. 128
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Cooper · 54 Ga. App. 192

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• Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Perry · 174 S.E.2d 570
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Milton · 38 S.E.2d 885
• Gilham v. National Life & Accident Insurance · 122 S.E.2d 164
• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Thompson · 460 S.E.2d 719
• Williams v. Dresser Industries, Inc. · 795 F. Supp. 1144
• National Life & Accident Insurance v. Crew · 119 Ga. App. 573
• United Family Life Insurance v. Shirley · 248 S.E.2d 635
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Anderson · 130 S.E.2d 144
• Mutual Life Insurance v. Bishop · 209 S.E.2d 223
• Reserve Life Insurance Co. v. Meeks · 174 S.E.2d 585
• All American Life & Casualty Co. v. Saunders · 186 S.E.2d 328
• AVEMCO INSURANCE COMPANY v. Rollins · 380 F. Supp. 869
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Joye · 48 S.E.2d 751
• Kennesaw Life & Accident Insurance v. Hubbard · 127 S.E.2d 845
• United Family Life Insurance v. Shirley · 242 S.E.2d 274
• General Assurance Corp. v. Roberts · 92 Ga. App. 834
• Case v. RGA Insurance Services · 521 S.E.2d 32
• McGhee v. INDEPENDENT LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY · 246 S.E.2d 349
• Sentry Indemnity Co. v. Sharif · 280 S.E.2d 354
• Globe Indemnity Company v. Hall · 95 S.E.2d 759
• National Life & Accident Insurance v. Hullender · 71 S.E.2d 754
• T. J. Blake Trucking, Inc. v. Alea London, Ltd. · 643 S.E.2d 762
• Hamby v. American Insurance Company · 37 S.E.2d 217
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Crowder · 31 S.E.2d 618
• National Life & Accident Insurance v. Atha · 26 S.E.2d 675

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