Caruthers v. Kansas Mut. Life Ins.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas
Action at Law on a Policy of Life Insurance. The plaintiff instituted this action to recover on a policy of insurance issued by the defendant on the life of her son. By stipulation in writing, trial by jury was waived, and the cause submitted to the court.
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Action at Law on a Policy of Life Insurance. The plaintiff instituted this action to recover on a policy of insurance issued by the defendant on the life of her son. By stipulation in writing, trial by jury was waived, and the cause submitted to the court. The court makes the following findings of facts: On the 27th day of June, 1900, Kobert H. Caruthers made an application for insurance at Helena, Ark., to the defendant, a life insurance company organized under the laws of the state of Kansas, and having its domicile in the state of Kansas. The application was made in writing by the assured,…
1Opinion of the Court
TR1EBER, District Judge.
The defendant denies liability in this action upon the grounds that the assured, in his application, warrant*490ed and agreed that all the answers made by him in reply to the medical examiner of the defendant, and signed by the assured, were full, complete, and true, and that each and all of said answers were correctly recorded, and that the answers to some of the questions, fully set out in the answer, and which will be as fully stated in this opinion as it is necessary for the determination of this cause, were false. One of the grounds upon which it is claimed by the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- New York Life Insurance v. FletcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Kenyon v. Knights Templar & Masonic Mutual Aid Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Brown v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1887
- Foot v. Ætna Life Insurance Co. of HartfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
- Cobb v. Covenant Mutual Benefit Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. BrubakerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1908
- McDermott v. Modern Woodmen of AmericaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903
- Pelican v. Mutual Life InsuranceMontana Supreme Court · 1911
- Keeton v. Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1925
- Carpenter v. Sun Indemnity Co.Nebraska Supreme Court · 1940
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