Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Larkin

Citation199 So. 293
Decision Date23 December 1940
Docket Number34284.
CourtUnited States State Supreme Court of Mississippi
PartiesMETROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Phil LARKIN.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Jones County; T. Price Dale, Special Judge.

Wells, Wells & Lipscomb, of Jackson, and Welch & Cooper, of Laurel, for appellant.

A. E. Easterling, of Laurel, for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

This is a companion case to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Reed Wright, 199 So. 289, and is controlled by that case, presenting all of the same questions, except that the present case does not contain an instruction on what is known as the Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus Doctrine. The views of both the majority and the minority are set forth in that case, this day decided.

It follows that the judgment in this case is reversed and remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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