Globe Mutual Life Insurance v. Wagner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. Appellee, Dora Wagner, recovered a judgment of $250 in a suit in assumpsit, in the superior court of Cook county, against appellant, the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Association of Chicago, on a policy of insurance issued to her on the life of her son, Richard Wagner.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District; — heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Axel Chytraus, Judge, presiding. Appellee, Dora Wagner, recovered a judgment of $250 in a suit in assumpsit, in the superior court of Cook county, against appellant, the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Association of Chicago, on a policy of insurance issued to her on the life of her son, Richard Wagner. The association appealed to the Appellate Court, where the judgment of the'superior court was affirmed, and now prosecutes this further appeal, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The chief ground urged by appellant for a reversal of the judgment of the Appellate Court is the falsity of the answer to one of the questions appearing in the medical examination of the insured. On the back of the application made by appellee, in what purports to be the medical examination of the insured, this question and answer appear: “Q. — How many brothers dead? Ans.— None.” The medical examination is certified- to by the medical examiner, as follows:
“I certify that I have, this 7th day of October, 1895, made a personal examination of tb,e above named person, (Richard Wagner,) and that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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