Legal Opinion

Siebelist v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 21, 1902No. Appeal, No. 212PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal, No. 212, Oct. T., 1901, by-plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1898, No. 856, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Predericke Siebelist v. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance. Before Biddle, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Rice, P. J.,

Two questions were discussed by counsel on the argument of this appeal, first, whether the “ application as signed by the *222applicant ” was copied in the policy within the provisions of the Act of May 11, 1881, P. L. 20, so as to render the warranties in the application available to the insurer; second, whether the plaintiff could offer in evidence a portion only of the proofs of death when the whole of the proofs were produced in court by the defendant upon the call of the plaintiff.

1. The first question is precisely the same as that considered by us in Baldi v. The…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Baldi v. Metropolitan InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
  2. Holleran v. Life Assurance Co. of AmericaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
  3. Heaffer v. New Era Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Evans v. Penn Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  2. Borgon v. John Hancock M. Life Ins.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1930
  3. South Side Trust Co. v. Eureka Life Ins.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920
  4. Baldi v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  5. Baldi v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906

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