Legal Opinion
Rappe v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 4, 1946PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
On October 1, 1942, the defendant issued a policy on the life of Albert Rappe. He died May 26, 1943. This action is- by the beneficiary named in the policy. The defendant relies entirely upon the affirmative defence set forth in its answer that in the application for the policy the insured falsely represented (1) that his health was good; (2) that he had never been an “inmate” of a hospital; (3) that he had no “usual medical attendant”; (4) that he had never had any “illness”; and (5) “especially” that he had never had a disease of the heart. The defendant alleges that these…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Cook v. Farm Service Stores, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- McDonough v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Lydon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Collins v. Casualty Co. of AmericaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Schiller v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Pahigian v. Manufacturers' Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Davidson v. Massachusetts Casualty InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Rappe v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Young Motor Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1963
- Gatlin v. World Service Life Insurance Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1981
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