Whitney v. West Coast Life Insurance
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Myrick & Deering, and James Walter Scott, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
Defendant appeals from a judgment for ten thousand dollars on a policy of life insurance and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
The defense was that Arthur L. Whitney, the assured, had máde false representations in his application for the policy. The application was signed on the last day of the year 1913. By the terms of the policy all insurance thereunder was based upon the written and printed application therefor Tvhich by attached copy was made a part of the contract. Mr. Whitney died June 10, 1914, of acute myocarditis, a disease of the heart.
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- Dolan v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Iverson v. Metropolitan Life Etc. Co.California Supreme Court · 1907
- Billings v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Vermont · 1898
- McEwen v. New York Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1914
- Madsen v. Maryland Cas. Co. of BaltimoreCalifornia Supreme Court · 1914
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- Maggini v. West Coast Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1934
- Layton v. New York Life InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1921
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