Hennessy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of a policy of a life insurance, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Hubbard, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $598, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge .of the court, and in its refusal to grant a new trial for a verdict against evidence. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The complaint, to which the policy of insurance which is the subject of the action is annexed, alleges that the death of James J. Hennessy, the insured, “ was not caused by any cause excepted in the policy ” and that he “ duly fulfilled all the conditions of said insurance on his part.” A copy of the application for insurance is made by the policy a part of the contract. This application stated and warranted, among other things, that no one of the parents of the insured ever had consumption, and that this was wholly true, and that any untrue answer would render the policy null and void. The…
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- Piedmont, Etc. Life-Ins. Co. v. Ewing, Etc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Hoxie v. Home InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1864
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- Greenthal v. Lincoln, Seyms & Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1896
- Kelsey v. Universal Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1868
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