Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Burno
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 7, 1941PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
This is a bill to rescind and cancel a policy of life insurance issued by the plaintiff on July 1, 1938, on the life of Winfred E. Burno, the beneficiary being a partnership of which he was a member. One ground upon which relief is asked is that the insured, on May 21, 1938, made an untrue answer “No” to a question in the application for the policy, which question purported to be addressed to him by the medical examiner for the plaintiff. The question was this: “Have you ever had any ailment or disease of . . . (c) The stomach or intestines, liver, kidneys or genitourinary organs?”
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2Cases cited31 opinions
- Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Moulor v. American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Phoenix Life Ins. Co. v. RaddinSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Campbell v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- McDonough v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Pahigian v. Manufacturers' Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Sullivan v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
- Davidson v. Massachusetts Casualty InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Rappe v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Lennon v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
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