Urwan v. Northwestern National Life Insurance
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oconto county: Sakuel D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover $159.55 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant February 5, 1903, as the first annual premium for a policy of insurance upon the plaintiff’s life of $5,000, on the twenty-payment life plan, to be issued by the defendant under the circumstances hereinafter named, with interest thereon from the day named.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Oconto county: Sakuel D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover $159.55 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant February 5, 1903, as the first annual premium for a policy of insurance upon the plaintiff’s life of $5,000, on the twenty-payment life plan, to be issued by the defendant under the circumstances hereinafter named, with interest thereon from the day named. The complaint alleges in effect that the making of the application and payment of the premium mentioned by the plaintiff was induced by the defendant by false and…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, C. J.
1. The plaintiff’s written application for insurance was made and signed by him February 5, 1903, and was in the usual form, with answers to questions by the medical examiner and the answers of the medical examiner, with this indorsement upon the margin in red ink: “It is agreed that the company is responsible for no representations not contained in its ratebook and printed matter.” The plaintiff’s written application for appointment as one of the defendant’s “board of special agents, limited to 400 full, or proportionate number of half members, under its special .agent’s contract for…
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