Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Brubaker
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided May 9, 1908No. 15,557PublishedCited by 39 opinions
Error from Shawnee district court; Alston W.. Dana, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Burch, J.:
The plaintiff brought suit to recover the amount of a policy of insurance issued by the defendant on the life of Frank E. Quinn. In connection with his application for insurance the insured stated in answer to a question propounded to him by the defendant’s medical examiner that he had never had consumption. He also returned answers to questions relating to illness, medical attendance, and consultation with physicians, as follow:
“3. Give full particulars of any illness you may have had since childhood and name of medical attendant or…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Jeffries v. Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- In re the Disbarment of BurnetteSupreme Court of Kansas · 1906
- Cobb v. Covenant Mutual Benefit Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Nelson v. Nederland Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900
- Price v. Phœnix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Bruington v. WagonerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1917
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. McCarthyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1927
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. ZivitzSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
- McEwen v. New York Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1919
- Armstrong v. Topeka Railway Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1914
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