Rhodes v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

(concur-

ring).

In a series of decisions from Florida, this court had occasion to examine the state of the law upon the effect of false answers to questions as to what clinics, hospitals, physicians, healers, or other practitioners applicant had consulted.

In Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Madden, 5 Cir., 117 F.2d 446, on full citation of authorities, we held that an untrue answer to a question of this kind seeking to elicit a fac'tjis ‘to matter material to the risk prevented recovery on the policy, and this without regard to whether the answer was given with a conscious fraudulent intent to…