Brown v. Greenfield Life Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two ACTIONS OF contract, to recover the amount of two policies of life insurance for one thousand dollars each, upon the life of Charles P. Brown. The beneficiary named in one of the policies was the wife of the insured, and in the other was George H. Graham. This last named policy had been assigned to one Robert A. Murray.
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Two ACTIONS OF contract, to recover the amount of two policies of life insurance for one thousand dollars each, upon the life of Charles P. Brown. The beneficiary named in one of the policies was the wife of the insured, and in the other was George H. Graham. This last named policy had been assigned to one Robert A. Murray. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Maynard, J.,' the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in each case; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff now contends that, upon inspection of the original policies and applications, which are before us, it appears that there are such substantial discrepancies between the applications and the copies annexed to the policies as to require it to be held as it was held in Nugent v. Creenfield Life Association, ante, 278, that the applications were not admissible in evidence or parts of the contracts, and that the defences founded upon alleged misrepresentations by the insured were not open, and that therefore the defendant’s exceptions should be overruled because it was not harmed by…
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