Billings v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Vermont
• Assumpsit upon a policy of life insurance. Plea, not guilty and notice. Trial by jury at tbe May Term, 1897, Windsor County, Start, J., presiding. Yerdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, J.(1) The plaintiff testified without objection that her husband, the insured, was in sound health at the time he took out the policy of life insurance in question. Thereupon counsel for the defendant, interrupted the witness and insisted that she could only testify to “his appearance of health.” The witness was then asked to describe the physical appearance of the insured in May, 1894, stating everything she could recollect, and replied in substance that he was in sound health and that she did not know of anything else she could say; that he appeared to be in sound health. After…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Phoenix Life Ins. Co. v. RaddinSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Campbell v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Dilleber v. . Home Life Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Edington v. . Mutual Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Brown v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMichigan Supreme Court · 1887
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Cummings v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Vermont · 1928
- Sylvester v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1903
- Standard Life Ins. Co. of the South v. StrongCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1935
- Packard v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1903
- Comstock's Admr. v. JacobsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1915
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