State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Smith

Decided June 14, 1965. Thomas C. Gordon wrote the opinion for the court.

206 Va. 280 · Cited 55 times

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• Lumbermens Mut. Casualty Co. v. Pulsifer · 41 F. Supp. 249
• United States v. Spaulding · 293 U.S. 498
• Pacific Automobile Insurance v. Lewis · 56 Cal. App. 2d 597
• Third National Bank of Ashland v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · 334 S.W.2d 261
• State-Planters Bank & Trust Co. of Richmond v. Commonwealth · 174 Va. 289
• Dotson v. Commonwealth · 192 Va. 565

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• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Jones · 383 S.E.2d 734
• Phelps v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 245 Va. 1
• Allstate Insurance v. Patterson · 344 S.E.2d 890
• Government Employees Insurance v. Allstate Insurance · 235 Va. 542
• GOVERNMENT EMP. INS. v. Allstate Ins. · 369 S.E.2d 181
• Winterwerp v. Allstate Insurance · 357 A.2d 350
• Holt v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · 507 So. 2d 388
• Johnson v. Home Indemnity Company · 401 S.W.2d 871
• Lester v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · 586 F. Supp. 2d 559
• Cobb v. State Security Insurance Co. · 576 S.W.2d 726
• General Casualty Company of Wisconsin v. Hines · 156 N.W.2d 118
• Furrow v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 375 S.E.2d 738
• DiOrio v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance · 311 A.2d 378
• Peninsula Insurance v. Knight · 255 A.2d 55
• St. Paul Mercury Insurance v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · 209 Va. 18
• Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. Michalic · 443 So. 2d 927
• Lopez v. Dobson · 397 S.E.2d 863
• Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Bernstein · 263 A.2d 259
• Cotton States Mutual Insurance Company v. Jami McNair Tuck

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