Legal Opinion
Self v. New York Life Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 19, 1932No. 9297PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENYON, Circuit Judge.
John I. Self on June 6, 1929, received from appellee (designated herein as the “Insurance Company”) a life insurance policy obligating it to pay to appellants, as beneficiaries, the sum of $10,000 in ease of his death. On July 28, 1929, he died. The Insurance Company declined to pay the policy on the ground that the insured had knowingly made false statements in his application for such insurance, that he well knew when he made the application for insurance that he was so afflicted with serious diseases of the heart and blood vessels that no honest medical examiner would…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Continental Life Insurance v. ChamberlainSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Wharton v. ætna Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1931
- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. HattenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1927
- Jamison v. State InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1892
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