Ley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Court. — Hon. W. S. Withrow, Judge. Action at law upon a policy of insurance issued by defendant upon the life of plaintiff’s husband. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeavbR, J.
The policy in suit was issued May 29, 1900, upon the life of William Ley, who died August 19, 1900. The defendant refuses payment, alleging that the said insured, in applying for such insurance, and in order to obtain a favorable report or certificate from the medical examiner, falsely and fraudulently misrepresented his physical condition and history; that in the year 1896 said Ley was afflicted with a very severe and almost fatal hemorrhage of the stomach (a disease which afterward caused his death), and that, in his examination by and answers to the examiner, he concealed and denied the…
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- New York Life Insurance v. DavisSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
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- Lyman v. CessfordSupreme Court of Iowa · 1863
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