State Supreme Court / N.Y.

Whitehead v. . New York Life Ins. Co.

Decided April 13, 1886. John Ridley Finch wrote the opinion for the court.

6 N.E. 267 · Cited 103 times

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Precedents cited

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.

Olmsted v. . Keyes · 85 N.Y. 593
Ruse v. . the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company · 23 N.Y. 516
Baker v. . the Union Mutual Life Ins. Co. · 43 N.Y. 283
Meyer v. . Knickerbocker Life Ins. Co. · 73 N.Y. 516

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Miles v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance · 147 U.S. 177
In Re the Accounting of Schrauth · 29 N.Y.2d 364
In Re Rundlett · 153 B.R. 126
In Re Weisman · 10 F. Supp. 312
Burr v. Mutual Life Ins. · 96 Or. 14
Chatham Phenix National Bank v. Crosney · 167 N.E. 217
Garner v. . Germania Life Ins. Co. · 18 N.E. 130
Ruckenstein v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 188 N.E. 650
Anderson v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance · 185 N.E. 696
Washington Life Insurance v. Berwald · 76 S.W. 442
Conlew, Inc. v. Kaufmann · 199 N.E. 767
American Life Ins. v. Hauer · 218 Miss. 560

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