American Life Ins. Co. v. Buntyn

BROWN, Justice.

The original bill was filed by appellant to effect a rescission and cancellation of a policy of insurance issued to Daniel Andrew Buntyn on the 1st day of October, 1931, insuring the life of said Buntyn, and naming the respondent, Genevieve Pradoso Buntyn, the insured’s wife, as the beneficiary.

The ground on which the bill seeks to rescind the contract and cancel at is that the insured in his written application for the issuance of the policy falsely represented that he had never had a surgical operation, except for hernia, and that said operation was without “after effects,”…