Sullivan v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The defendant issued a policy on the life of Mark .Sullivan on April 10, 1957. He died as a result of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm on May 8, 1967. This action is by his widow, the beneficiary named in the policy. The defendant relies upon the affirmative defence set forth in its answer that in the application for the policy the insured falsely represented that his then occupation was ‘ ‘ Manager-Office, ’ ’ that he had not followed any other occupations in the five years prior to the date the application was signed by him, that he had never had or been told that-he had, or consulted or…