Legal Opinion

Lee v. New York Life Ins.

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 6, 1919No. 21502PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Appeal from Thirteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; James., Andrews, Judge. Action by Mrs. Fannie Kelso Lee against the New York life Insurance Company of New York. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

Statement of the Case.

MONROE, C. J.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting her demand for $2,500, representing the amount called for by a policy of insurance issued by defendant upon the life of her husband and in which she is named as beneficiary. The defense is that the insurance was obtained by *447certain untrue and fraudulent representations and concealments with respect to material facts, and thait, instead of being insurable, and a man in perfect health, as he represented himself to be, the insured (whose death, during the life of the policy, is not now in dispute) — ■

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Cole v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
  2. Goff v. Mutual Life Ins.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Rhodes v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
  2. Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. StevensonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1934
  3. Knight v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1967
  4. Radosta v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1964
  5. New York Life Ins. Co. v. BurrisMississippi Supreme Court · 1936

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