Legal Opinion
Garman v. Metropolitan Life Ins.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided August 8, 1947No. 9176PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FORMAN, District Judge.
The defendant, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, on March 14, 1944 issued a policy of life insurance in the amount of $5,000 upon the life of Harry Garmau, who died November 21,' 1945. Upon failure of the defendant to pay the claim, Anne Gar-man, wife of the insured and benficiary in the policy, instituted a suit on it in the New Jersey Supreme Court, which afterwards was removed to this court. Defendant filed an answer setting up fraud at law and a counterclaim for cancellation of the policy on the basis of equitable -fraud committed by the deceased in…
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