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GriffIn Vs. Mccoach

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 02, 1941

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  1. Bond Vs. Hume US Supreme Court · Mar 06, 1917
  2. Overby Vs. Gordon US Supreme Court · Apr 09, 1900
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  3. Union Trust Co. Vs. Grosman US Supreme Court · Jan 07, 1918
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  4. Home Insurance Co. Vs. Dick US Supreme Court · May 05, 1930
  5. U.S. 498 (1941) U.S. Supreme Court Griffin v. McCoach
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  6. U.S. 498 (1941) Griffin v. McCoach
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  7. a federal court in diversity of citizenship cases are those of the State in which the federal court sits. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor
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  8. none. Hence, the personal representative was entitled to recover their portions of the policy for the estate. Wilke v. Finn
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  9. original policy, they did not amount to new contracts or change the governing law. Cf. Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Dunken
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  10. was sought and allowed, 312 U.S. 676, on the ground, among others, of a conflict between the instant case and Sampson v. Channell
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  11. court must apply the conflict of laws rules of the state where it sits. For the reasons given in Klaxon Company v. Stentor
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  12. Texas law or Texas decisions, but upon decisions of this Court inapplicable to this situation in the light of Erie R. v. Tompkins
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  13. U. S. 64 , and Ruhlin v. New
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  14. But this is something to be decided according to Texas decisions to none of which the opinion refers. Cf. Wilke v. Finn
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  15. Cheeves v. Anders
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  16. do not, in our opinion, decide this question. Overby v. Gordon
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  17. the courts of the District of Columbia in a suit to determine anew decedent's domicile. New York Life Insurance Co. v. Head
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  18. because the agreement, valid in New York, was contrary to the public policy of the former was not discussed. In Bond v. Hume
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  19. excepts claimed rights so contrary to the law of the forum as to subvert the forum's view of public policy. Cf. Loucks v. Standard
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  20. decisions which refused to enforce a valid foreign contract of guarantyship against a married woman. Union Trust Co. v. Grosman
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  21. valid foreign contracts which required the doing of prohibited acts within the state of the forum. Bothwell v. Buckbee-Mears
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  22. it has recognized that a state is not required to enforce a law obnoxious to its public policy. Bradford Electric Co. v. Clapper
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  23. Hartford Indemnity Co. v. Delta
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  24. beyond the state's borders with no relation to anything done or to be done within the borders. Home Insurance Co., v. Dick
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  25. in the Delta case, the time for notice varied in the two jurisdictions. In New York Life Insurance Co. v. Dodge
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  26. Cf. Miller v. Campbell
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  27. Cf. Union Trust Co. v. Grosman
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  28. Compare Griggsby v. Russell
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  29. Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Schaefer
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  30. Cf. Sampson v. Channell
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  31. New York Life Insurance Co. v. Head
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  32. Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Dunken
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  33. Before Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
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  34. Court decided as a matter of general law that, where time of notice is important, the foreign law governs. Boseman v. Insurance
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  35. U.S. Supreme Court Griffin v. McCoach
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  36. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor
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  37. Wilke v. Finn
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  38. Cf. Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Dunken
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  39. and Sampson v. Channell
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  40. Klaxon Company v. Stentor
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  41. of Erie R. v. Tompkins
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  42. and Ruhlin v. New
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  43. Cf. Wilke v. Finn
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  44. In Bond v. Hume
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  45. Cf. Loucks v. Standard
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  46. Bothwell v. Buckbee-Mears
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  47. Bradford Electric Co. v. Clapper
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  48. In New York Life Insurance Co. v. Dodge
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  49. Boseman v. Insurance
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