Supreme Court of the United States, 1905

Mutual Reserve Life Insurance v. Birch

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided December 18, 1905 · No. 344

200 U.S. 612; 26 S. Ct. 752; 50 L. Ed. 620; 1905 U.S. LEXIS 971 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Mr. Gordon T. Hughes for plaintiff in error. Mr. Gilbert E. Roe for defendant in error.

Cases that cite this one

10 later published cases cite this decision.

City of New Orleans v. Kansas City Life Ins. Co. (La. 1945)
City of Gretna v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. (La. 1944)
Consolidated Flour Mills Co. v. Muegge (Okla. 1927)
Fitz v. Hope Lumber & Supply Co. (Okla. 1938)
Hagler v. Security Mut. Life Ins. (District Court, N.D. Texas 1917)
Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Slinker (Okla. 1914)
Guggenheimer v. Beaver Board Companies (New York Supreme Court 1930)
Gaboury v. Central Vermont Railway Co. (N.Y. 1929)
Frazier v. Steel & Tube Co. of America (W. Va. 1926)
Braunstein v. Fraternal Union (Minn. 1916)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion of the Court

In error to the Supreme Court of the State o'f New York.

Per Curiam.

Judgment affirmed with ten per cent damages, in addition to interest-and costs. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association v. Phelps, 190 U. S. 147; Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Spratley, 172 U. S. 602; Egan v. Hart, 165 U. S. 188; Richardson v. L. & N. Railroad Company, 169 U. S. 128; Young v. Valentine, 177 N. Y. 347; Woodward v. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, 178 N. Y. 485; Birch v. Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, 181 N. Y. 583; S. C., 91 App. Div. 384.

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