Ratté v. Forand

The plaintiff appeals from a final decree dismissing the bill after the sustaining of a demurrer. Her case is this. She is the administratrix of the estate of Marie Ratté. In 1927, at the request of the defendants, who are husband and wife, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company issued an insurance policy, apparently on the life of Marie Ratté though not so expressly stated, without *186her knowledge, through false representations that the female defendant was a niece of Marie Ratté, and by concealment of the fact that she had an incurable cancer. After her death the defendants collected…