Pitts v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• stating that implied waiver “results merely from conduct of the party against whom the doctrine is invoked from which voluntary relinquishment of his known right is reasonably inferable”
• stating application of doctrines of waiver and estoppel on this basis “must of course depend upon the circumstances of the particular case”
• “[EJstoppel is an equitable doctrine, essentially flexible, and therefore to be applied or denied as the equities between the parties may preponderate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).