Lewis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

This is an action of contract wherein the plaintiff as beneficiary of a policy of insurance issued, by the defendant upon the life of Lillian C. Bosley, who is now deceased, seeks to recover the amount insured.

The answer admitted issuance of the policy on October 1,1965, and due proof of death, but says that the decedent in the application for the policy in question made certain statements concerning her state of health and medical history and that these representations were false and were made with intent to deceive the Defendant or increased the risk of loss and that, because of said false…