Legal Opinion
Janco v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 1948No. Appeal, 66PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Arnold, J.,
The plaintiff brought this action in assumpsit as the beneficiary of a life insurance, policy issued by the defendant. All the facts appeared in the pleadings, and upon motion thereon judgment went for .the plaintiff and defendant.appealed. . •
The. insured, was a,.rpember of the Army Air Force in the late war, and was killed in: Alabama as the result qf a crash of -an airplane in which, he was training and flying as a part, of his military; duties.
The defense was that the policy contained the following :, . . that death as ¡hereinafter described, is not a risk assumed…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Hyfer v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Caruso v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1948
- Selenack v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
- McKanna v. Continental Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1948
- Caruso v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1947
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Southland Life Insurance Co. v. TrahanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1955
- Wilmington Trust Co. v. Travelers Ins.District Court, D. Delaware · 1952
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. White. White v. New York Life Ins. CoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Mullen v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
- Onze v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County1954
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