Harnischfeger Sales Corp. v. National Life Insurance

Loring, Justice.

This was an action by the assignee of a $30,000 insurance policy on the life of Alexander William Hog, who died June 10, 1933. The insurance contract was completed March 6, 1933, by the delivery of the policy. The defenses set up were that the insured was in bad health when the policy was delivered and that by fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation of material facts he had misled the defendant and induced it to enter into the contract. In his application for insurance Hog denied ever having been at a hospital for treatment, observation, or diagnosis. He admitted that he…