George Washington Life Insurance v. Smith

The first special ground of the motion excepts to the following portion of the charge to the jury: “If an agent of the insurer, after obtaining from an applicant for insurance a correct and truthful answer to interrogatories contained in the application for insurance, without knowledge of the applicant, fills in false answers, either fraudulently or otherwise, the insurer cannot assert the falsity of such answers as a defense to-liability on the policy. And this is true without regard to the subject matter of the answers or the nature of the agent’s duties or limitations on his authority, if…