Legal Opinion
Ruhlin v. New York Life Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 2, 1938No. 596PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
On February 14, 1935, the New York Life Insurance Company, respondent here, filed its bill of complaint in the District Court for Western Pennsylvania to rescind, because of certain misrepresentations, the disability and double indemnity provisions in five policies issued on the life of defendant John G. Ruhlin, and made in favor of the other defendants as beneficiaries.
The bill alleged that the plaintiff is a mutual life insurance company incorporated under the laws of the State of New York and lawfully engaged in business in Pitts burgh, Pa.; that the defendants are temporarily living in…
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