Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Ludwig

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing Court of appeals because its decision conflicted with \the 'inveterate and certain' rule\ of Morley
• reversing Court of appeals because its decision conflicted with “the ‘inveterate and certain’ rule” of Morley
• an argument that was \no more than 'an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court' * * * required no cross-appeal\
• an argument that was “no more than ‘an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court’ * * * required no eross-appeal”
• “[A]ppellee may, without taking a cross-appeal, urge in support of a decree any matter appearing in the record, although his argument may involve an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court or an insistence upon matter overlooked or ignored by it.”
• “ ‘[T]he appellee may, without taking a cross-appeal, urge in support of a decree any matter appearing in the record, although his argument may involve an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court or an insistence upon matter overlooked or ignored by it.’ ”

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