Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America v. Clum

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellee leans heavily, and, under Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, 114 A.L.R. 1487, properly, on two doctrines of the Pennsylvania courts. The first is “good faith” as the touchstone for answers in applications for life insurance. All the cases cited in either brief are collected in 20 Vale Pennsylvania Digest, sub nomine Insurance, <§=’256(2), p. 429. The second is the narrow scope of the court’s power to enter judgments non obstante veredicto, 22 Vale Pennsylvania Digest, sub nomine Judgment, <®=,199(3), p. 325. The emphasis…