Brady v. United Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Error to the Gircuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Action by Mary Brady against the United Life Insurance Association. The trial court directed a verdict for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Judgment affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The assignments of error impugn the ruling of the trial judge in instructing the jury to find a verdict for the defendant. If the trial judge correctly instructed the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, upon the ground that there was a warranty by the assured of the truth of the answers made in his application for insurance, and upon the un-contradicted evidence one of the answers was untrue when made, it is unnecessary to consider whether the truth of other representations was, upon the evidence, a question of fact for the jury. The policy was issued October 2,…
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