Hall v. Prudential Insurance
New York Supreme Court
Action to recover premiums claimed to have been paid by the plaintiff’s testatrix to the defendant upon a policy of insurance, issued by the defendant upon the life of one Horace M. Ellis. Jury waived and case tried before court.
1Opinion of the CourtPurcell, J.
The proofs given on the trial show that on October 26, 1903, one Horace M. Ellis, of the city of Syracuse, H. Y., at the solicitation of one of the defendant’s agents, made an application in writing for the policy in question, and, on October thirty-first next following, he was duly examined by one of the defendant’s medical examiners, who certified as to the risk. Both the application and the examiner’s report were signed by Ellis. Before Ellis signed the said application or was examined he stated to defendant’s agent that he did not want any insurance; and the agent replied that he was…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Walsh v. Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- Wokal v. BelskyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Coulson v. . FlynnNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Morgan v. Mutual Benefit Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
- Cohen v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1909
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