Murray v. State Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Assumpsit upon a policy of life insurance. The facts-appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.
This action is brought to recover the amounts claimed to be due on two life insurance policies, issued on the same date. The plaintiff sets up in his’declaration that the policies were, by their terms, incontestable after two years from the date of their issue, and that more than two years had elapsed between the date of their issue and the death of the insured, The defendant has filed several pleas in bar, to the effect that certain false and fraudulent answers were made by the insured in the applications. The plaintiff has demurred to these pleas, and the case is before us on that demurrer.
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Massachusetts Benefit Life Ass'n v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
- Ritter v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Wright v. Mutual Benefit Life Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Clement v. Insurance Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1898
- Wilkinson v. First National Fire Insurance Co. of WorcesterNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
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- American Trust Co. v. Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
- Indiana National Life Insurance v. McGinnisIndiana Supreme Court · 1913
- Dibble v. Reliance Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1915
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. KaufmanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. RoseDistrict Court, E.D. Kentucky · 1923
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