Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR iTO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES' EOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OE NEW YORK. An action to recover upon a policy of life Insurance. The facts which make the several issues are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This was an aetion upon a policy of life insurance in which a verdict and a judgment were rendered for the plaintiff. The policy was taken out on the 21st of February,. 1878, by the Union Trust Company of New York for the benefit of the children of William Orton who might survive him. The insured died on the 22d of April of the same year. In the application, signed by the trust company and by Orton, the following question (the seventh) was propounded : “ Have you ever had any of the following diseases ? Answer (yes or no) opposite each.” Then follows a list of the diseases about which the…
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