Legal Opinion
Travelers Insurance v. Snydecker
New York Supreme Court
Decided March 16, 1926PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtProskauer, J.
The only ground of invalidity asserted is failure to show basis for equitable relief. Ordinarily such an action for rescission will not lie because the legal remedy by way of defense is adequate. (Globe Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Reals, 79 N. Y. 202; Cable v. U. S. Life Ins. Co., 191 U. S. 288; Charlton v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 202 App. Div. 757, 814; affd., 234 N. Y. 639.) An exceptional circumstance must be shown.
The policy here in suit contains the statutory incontestability clause. The position of- the plaintiff is that unless it begins a suit to contest the policy within the time…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance v. Hurni Packing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Cable v. United States Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Globe Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. . RealsNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Markowitz v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1924
- Charlton v. . Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1923
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Killian v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. HurtCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1929
- McKenna v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1927
- Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. PtohidesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
- Telford v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1928
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