Legal Opinion
Donohue v. New York Life Ins.
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided September 23, 1949No. Civ. No. 2249PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
This is an action for reformation of two life insurance policies, for $10,000 and $5,000 respectively. The action is brought on the claim that the agent who solicited the taking out of the policies represented that, after twenty years, there would be paid an income of about $150 a month for life, or cash about equal to the amount paid in. The policies were written as ordinary life policies.
The plaintiff is a physician who was, for many years before the writing of the policies in 1925, an examining physician for a life insurance company. He signed an application, made out…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- New York Life Insurance v. FletcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Ryan v. World Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
- Travelers' Insurance v. HendersonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1895
- Richardson v. Travelers Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1948
- Kiley v. DoranSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
3Cited by4 opinions
- Newton v. New York Life InsuranceDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1962
- Albert H. Newton and Genevieve Newton v. New York Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Dominion Life Assurance Company, a Corporation, Manufacturers Life Insurance Company v. Lloyd Steadman and Wayne W. Wentner, Dominion Life Assurance Company v. Lloyd Steadman and Wayne W. Wentner, New York Life Insurance Company v. Lloyd Steadman and Wayne W. WentnerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Botts v. Shenandoah Life InsuranceDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1954
- Newton v. New York Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963