Elinor M. Ratay v. The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• plain error found because judge incorrectly instructed jury on the burden of proving elements of fraud
• plain error found because judge incorrectly instructed jury on the burden of proving elements of fraud
• erroneous charge that burden of proof for defense of fraud could be sustained by a fair preponderance of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).