Black v. Travellers' Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
In the application on which the policy in suit is based, dated September 26, 1896, the decedent represented and warranted that he had never had “any bodily or mental infirmity.” ' It was proved, however, at the trial that while a soldier in the Civil War he received a gunshot wound in the back of the head, by which the external table of the skull was fractured, -a piece about half an inch square taken out, and a slight depression of the inner table produced. On the strength of this, in December, 1868, he was granted a pension by the United States government of $8 a…
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