Haddad v. New York Life Ins.

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

The insurance company obtained a decree in the court below vacating a life and sickness indemnity policy upon which Haddad was making claim. The ground of the relief was that he had procured the policy by the false representation that for the preceding five years he had not consulted nor been examined or treated by any physician. It appeared beyond dispute at the trial that for some two or three years before the application date he had been suffering, habitually if not continually, severe abdominal pains with persistent fever; that for this period he had been under…