Ramey v. Carolina Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• It is well settled that “[a] policy of insurance taken out on the life of another without his knowledge or consent is void and against public policy in that it might be a fruitful source of crime.”
• “[t]he rule against issuing policies on the fife of a person without his knowledge or consent is ‘designed to protect human fife.’ Policies issued in violation of this rule are ‘not dangerous because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are dangerous’ ”
• “[t]he law thus seems to be well recognized in this State that a policy of insurance taken out on the fife of another without his knowledge or consent is void and against public policy in that it might be a fruitful source of crime”
• \[t]he rule against issuing policies on the life of a person without his knowledge or consent is 'designed to protect human life.' Policies issued in violation of this rule are 'not dangerous because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are dangerous\
• \[t]he law thus seems to be well recognized in this State that a policy of insurance taken out on the life of another without his knowledge or consent is void and against public policy in that it might be a fruitful source of crime\
• currently pending in Fla. Supreme Court, Case No. 61558

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).