Fidelity Mut. Life Ass'n v. Jeffords
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. This is an action on a life insurance policy. It was brought by Thomas O. Jeffords, a citizen of Georgia, against the Fidelity Mutual Bife Association, a corporation under the laws of Pennsylvania. The action was brought in the city court of Savannah, Ga., and was removed into the court below on the application of the association.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. This is an action on a life insurance policy. It was brought by Thomas O. Jeffords, a citizen of Georgia, against the Fidelity Mutual Bife Association, a corporation under the laws of Pennsylvania. The action was brought in the city court of Savannah, Ga., and was removed into the court below on the application of the association. It is alleged in the petition that on December 29, 189J, the association Issued to Martin A. Jeffords its policy of insurance, promising to pay 810,000' to Thomas O. Jeffords,…
1Opinion of the CourtShelby, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). 1. The failure of the court to give the three charges requested by the plaintiff in error, and the giving of the first eight against: its objection, all of which we have set out in full, raised practically the same question. The distinguished counsel for the plaintiff in error contend that the application for insurance was made the foundation of the policy, and that its statements are covenanted to be trae, and that if *408they are not true the policy is void; that is, it is void whether the untruth he intentional or not. They assert that under the Georgia law…
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