Bollard v. New York Life Insurance
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, first district, entered on the verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying the motion to set aside the verdict and for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtLehman, J.
The plaintiff has recovered judgment in an action brought by her as beneficiary of an insurance policy issued upon the life of her daughter. The answer sets up that the insured in her application for insurance made false and fraudulent answers in writing to questions contained in the application and signed these answers and that the applicant “ therein and thereby declared on behalf of herself and of every person who should have or claim any interest in any insurance made thereunder that she had carefully read each and all of said answers, they were each written as made by her, that each of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- New York Life Insurance v. FletcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Plumb v. . Cattaraugus Co. Mutual Insurance Company.New York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Sternaman v. . Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1902
- Archer v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Minsker v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Greber v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesArizona Supreme Court · 1934
- Satz v. Massachusetts Bonding & InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1926
- Axelroad v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1935
- Broidy v. State Mut. Life Assur. Co. Of Worcester, Mass.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
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