Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Warren
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OHIO. This action was brought in the Common Pleas Court of Delaware County, Ohio, on a policy of insurance issued September 27, 1895, by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company on the life of George E. Warren and for the benefit of William M. Warren.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OHIO. This action was brought in the Common Pleas Court of Delaware County, Ohio, on a policy of insurance issued September 27, 1895, by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company on the life of George E. Warren and for the benefit of William M. Warren. The insurance company resisted payment on the ground that the policy had been fraudulently obtained by the decedent, in that the answers made by him in his application made a part of the policy, and which were expressly warranted to be complete and true, the policy providing that if any of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
In State v. Ackerman, 51 Ohio St. 163, it -was ruled that as foreign, insurance companies and associations, whether incorporated or not, before commencing business in the State, were required to obtain a certificate of authority to do .so, which conferred on the company or association receiving it the right and privilege of carrying on its business in the State, the privilege so conferred was a franchise. In the course of the opinion the court quoted with approval, from Spelling on Extraordinary Relief, as follows: “ Where, by statute, the legal exercise of a right, which at common law was…
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- Missouri State Life Insurance v. LovelaceCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
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