Chinnery v. United States Industrial Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The United States Industrial Insurance Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 31st day of October, 1896, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court in an action brought to Tecover upon a policy of life insurance.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The defendant issued its policy of insurance, dated January 21, 1895, upon the life of Catharine Chinnery, who died of consumption February 4,1896. One Buckley, the person who secured from Miss Chinnery the application for the policy, testified, that, of the questions contained in the application, the only ones which he asked her were : How old she was; if she had been insured in or rejected by any other company; the name and number of the street in which she lived, etc.; whether she was married or single ; when she' "was last sick, and what her then condition of health was.…
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