Legal Opinion
Farrell v. Security Mut. Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 11, 1903No. 167PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. This cause comes to this court upon a writ of error by plaintiff in the court below to review a judgment entered for defendant in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut upon a verdict rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff herein is the assignee of, and beneficiary designated under, a policy of insurance for $5,000 issued by defendant to William H. Taylor on October 21, 1899. The portions of the application for insurance signed by the insured which are material to the questions involved herein are as follows:
“I agree, that I will abstain from the habitual use of opium or other narcotics, and that this agreement, together with the answers and explanations given to the above various questions, inclusive of those propounded by the medical examiner, and the written and printed…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brady v. United Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1894
- Chinnery v. United States Industrial InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
3Cited by5 opinions
- Baltimore Life Insurance v. FloydSupreme Court of Delaware · 1915
- Joseph Baur v. F. David Mathews, Secretary of HewCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Rupert v. Supreme Court United Order of ForestersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Ætna Life Ins. Co. of Hartford v. PerronCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1934
- Joseph Baur v. F. David Mathews, Secretary of HewCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978