Rawlings v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “to have an agency relationship under a power of attorney, the principal must have the capacity to contract”
• noting that while courts “should give the language of a pleading its fair and natural construction,” they “must stop short of reading a claim into a pleading where none exists” (citations omitted)
• “The failure to assert a claim or defense in a timely manner is deemed a waiver of the right to rely on the claim or defense later in the proceeding.”
• evidence preponderates against a factual finding when it “support[s] another finding of fact with greater convincing effect”
• “The failure to assert a claim or defense in a timely manner is deemed a waiver of the right to rely on the claim or defense later in the proceeding.”
• discussing fraud, duress, and undue influence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).