Legal Opinion
Woodworth v. Connecticut Mut. Life Ins.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 6, 1939PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This is a suit to rescind a life annuity policy issued by the defendant to Chauncey C. Woodworth on Aug. 25, 1936, on the ground that there was “a unilateral mistake of material fact”.
The complaint alleges that Woodworth paid the defendant $25,000 on Aug. 25, 1936, for a single premium annuity policy providing for quarterly annuity payments to Woodworth during the balance of his lifetime; that he was 52% years old at the time the policy was issued, and had a life expectancy of 19% years according to the mortality tables; that he was unaware that he had diseases of such a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rishel v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1935
- Rinn v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1937
3Cited by2 opinions
- Moses v. Manufacturers Life InsuranceDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1968
- Woodworth v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1939