Townsend v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brentano, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
We have given very fully in the statement prefixed hereto the contentions of the complainant and the allegations of his bill, including its exhibits, on which those contentions rest. We have done this because the question involved is important and not free from difficulty and the necessarily limited discussion of it which we can give could hardly be well understood in all its bearings without reference to these contentions and allegations.
We do not think the statement in the “prospectus” or proposition put before the complainant as an inducement to him to take the policy is of importance. The…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Root v. Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Uhlman v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Chicago Mutual Life Indemnity Ass'n v. HuntIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
- Pierce v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
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