Manufacturers Life Insurance v. Beardsley

This appeal presents no reversible error. It is an appeal from a chancellor’s decree canceling a life insurance contract and enjoining defendant as the beneficiary named therein from prosecuting an action at law to recover on the contract. The contract of insurance was issued in November of 1956 on the life of Burl Beardsley, defendant’s husband, who died 1 year after the policy was issued.

The chancellor found that certain of the answers contained in the application for insurance were false. Although he found no actual intent on the part of the insured to deceive the insurance company, he did…