Washington Life Insurance v. Haney
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District, Court. Action by Haney upon a policy of insurance issued by plaintiff in error on the. 12th of July 1869, upon the life of Eliza E., wife of said Haney.
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Error from Douglas District, Court. Action by Haney upon a policy of insurance issued by plaintiff in error on the. 12th of July 1869, upon the life of Eliza E., wife of said Haney. Amount insured, $2,000. Said Eliza died on the 13th of April 1870. Action commenced August 3d, 1870. The Insurance Company claimed that the answers made by said Eliza to the questions contained in the application for the policy were knowingly false, and were so made to induce said company “to issue said policy, and with the intent to defraud ” the companyThe action was tried at the February Term 1872. The record…
1Opinion of the Court
*535The opinion' of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The defendant in error recovered a judgment on a policy of insurance issued by the plaintiff in error on the life of his wife Eliza E. Haney. To reverse this judgment this proceeding in error has been brought. The questions presented in the record arise solely upon the exclusion of testimony, and the charge of the court. Eight grounds of error are presented and discussed by counsel for plaintiffs in error in their brief; yet the determination of two or three will dispose of them all and decide the case.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Campbell v. New England Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Miller v. Mutual Benefit Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1871
- Rawls v. . American Mutual Life Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1863
- Valton v. . the National Fund Life Assurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- Kelsey v. Universal Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1868
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Goodwin v. Provident Savings Life Assurance Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1896
- Schwarzbach v. Ohio Valley Protective UnionWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1885
- Mutual Life Insurance v. WiswellSupreme Court of Kansas · 1896
- Continental Casualty Co. v. OwenSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1913
- Jenkin v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.California Supreme Court · 1900
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