Legal Opinion
Carpenter v. Edmonson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1937No. 8490PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
On November 7, 1936, appellants brought this suit to cancel for fraud a policy of disability insurance providing for payment of $500. a month. The fraud relied on was that the policy had been secured by false answers in the application for it. It was alleged that complainants, on September 8, 1936, had ascertained for the first time the falsity of the answers, when they learned that the insured had had a duodenal ulcer at the time the insurance was applied for, and that he had suffered from it during the whole time the policy was in force; that on October 31, 1936,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Aetna Life Insurance v. HaworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Enelow v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- American Life Insurance v. StewartSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Di Giovanni v. Camden Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. of California v. ParkerCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1934
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3Cited by35 opinions
- American Automobile Ins. Co. v. FreundtCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1939
- C. E. Carnes & Co. v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp., Ltd. of LondonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1939
- Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. YeattsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1938
- J. Samuel Wacker v. J. G. Bisson, Consul General, Dominion of CanadaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. KochCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1939
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