Legal Opinion

Massachusetts Benefit Life Ass'n v. Robinson

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 24, 1898PublishedCited by 193 opinions

Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. January term, 1897.

1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.

On March 12, 1888, John M. Robinson made an application to the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association for a policy of insurance upon his life for the sum of three thousand dollars. To the application was attached the following certificate : “I, John Madison Robinson, of Atlanta, County of Fulton, State of Georgia, do hereby warrant each and all the foregoing particulars and statements to be true, and that I have not in this application for above-named contract concealed or withheld any material circumstance, or information, concerning the past or present state of my health or habits of life;…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Thompson v. Phenix InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. National Bank v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
  3. Wright v. Mutual Benefit Life Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
  4. Melson v. Phenix InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896
  5. South Carolina Railroad v. NixSupreme Court of Georgia · 1882

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3Cited by193 opinions

  1. Claussen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1989
  2. Johnson v. Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1922
  3. Davis v. United American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1959
  4. American Trust Co. v. Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
  5. Thornton v. Travelers InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1902

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