Platt v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This is an appeal from a judgment entered for defendant non obstante veredicto in a suit by a beneficiary against an insurance company on its policy which insured, the life of plaintiff’s husband. Judgment was entered for defendant because the uncontradicted documentary evidence established false and fraudulent statements made by the insured in the insurance application, upon which the insurer relied in issuing the policy.

The policy was issued on April 24, 1943. Insured died within three months thereafter on July 3, 1943. The cause of death was “a…