Legal Opinion
Combs v. Equitable Life Ins. Co. of Iowa
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1941No. 4761PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
This case comes before the court on the appeal of the plaintiff in the District Court from a judgment for the defendant in an action on a policy of life insurance upon the life of Dewey O. Combs. On April 5, 1938, the insured, a senior at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia, signed an application for a policy of insurance with the defendant company m the amount of $5,000. The same day he was examined by a medical examiner of the company. In answer to a question in the application Combs stated that he had never suffered from any ailment or disease of…
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