Adams v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

The suit is to recover upon a policy of insurance issued by the defendant company on the life of plaintiff’s wife. Liability in an amount greater than the premiums paid with interest is denied by defendant on the ground that certain answers of insured in her application for the insurance were false and fraudulent. The jury found in plaintiff’s favor, and defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied by the court of common pleas, whose judgment was affirmed by the Superior Court. We thereupon allowed the present appeal.

Insured died July 26,…