McClain v. Provident Sav. Life Assur. Soc. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
Rebecca T. McClain, the plaintiff in error, is the beneficiary named in two policies of insurance taken out by her husband, Isaac E. McClain, on his life, for $5,000 each, bearing-date May 1, 1899, and issued by the defendant company on an application signed by the insured, dated April 27, 1899. Decedent died of cancer of the stomach on October nth following. Due proofs of death were made and submitted to the defendant, who refused to pay the insurance on the ground that certain answers to questions contained in the application were warranted by him to be true, when in…
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