Rakov v. Bankers Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Bankers Life Insurance Company of the City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favdr of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 22d day of December, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on .the 26th day of December, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
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Appeal by the defendant, Bankers Life Insurance Company of the City of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favdr of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 22d day of December, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on .the 26th day of December, 1913, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes. This case was transferred from the Fourth Department to the Third Department. (See 163 App. Div. 937.)
1Opinion of the Court
Kellogg, J.:
A bare statement of the facts shows the fraudulent nature of the plaintiff’s claim. Rachel Rakov, the mother, had a policy of insurance in the Penn Mutual in favor of her daughter, Mrs. Wolson, and on May 12, 1911, obtained a policy in the defendant company in favor of the plaintiff, her son. An application for insurance was made in her name, August 23, *6461907, to the Home Life Insurance Company and was rejected. Another application was made that month to the New York Life Insurance Company and rejected. In June, 1908, an application for insurance upon her life was made to the…
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