Hartshorn v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the 'defendant, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Steuben on. the 23d day' of November, 1899; upon the verdict of a jury, and ■ also- from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2d day of - February, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:. The action was brought by the administrator of Hannah M. King, who died on the -25th day of October, 1898, to recover on two policies of insurance issued by defendant upon her life.
One of the principal defenses interposed and litigated upon the- . trial was a breach of warranty on the part of the- decedent in-representing herself to be many years younger than she really was-The first policy, known as an industrial policy, was issued "on the' 10th day of May, 1897.. By virtue of its provisions, defendant became obligated, upon satisfactory proof of the death of the assured,…
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