Legal Opinion
Laury v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided April 25, 1930No. 27,779PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
1 Reported in 230 N.W. 648, 231 N.W. 824. There was a recovery upon a life insurance policy, and defendant appeals from the order denying its motion in the alternative for judgment or a new trial.
The defense was false statements knowingly and intentionally made by the insured in the application for insurance. Defendant alleged that the insured, David N. Laury, died in an epileptic attack, and that to his knowledge he was subject to such attacks and had suffered a near fatal one within five years prior to the application for insurance while in the swimming tank of the high school in Virginia,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. NewtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Home Benefit Assn. v. SargentSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Travelers Insurance v. PomerantzNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
- Hanna v. Connecticut Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Gilchrist v. Mystic Workers of the WorldMichigan Supreme Court · 1915
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Blazek v. North American Life & Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1957
- Burke v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Schaedler v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1937
- Security Mutual Casualty Company v. Affiliated Fm Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
- Backstrom v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1931
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