Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-Green
Supreme Court of the United States
CEETIOKAKI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction and effect of an application for Ufe insurance policy containing false statements, and the liability of the company issuing poU-cies in reUance thereon, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
deUvered the opinion of the court.
Respondents sued to recover upon four poheies, not different except as to numbers, for $7,662.00 each and dated December 16, 1908, on the Ufe of their testator Wiggins, who died March 26, 1910. By various pleas the insurance company set up that the application upon which poheies wére based contained material representations both false and fraudulent. In reply the executors denied truth of each pleá and also alleged that if the appli cation contained any misrepresentations the actual circumstances were known to company when policies issued.
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