Rondinella v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 87, Oct. T., 1903, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1897, No. 742, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Ferdinand Rondinella, Guardian of Joseph.Rizzo, Cornelius Rizzo, Annita Rizzo and Stella Rizzo, Minors, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance.
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Appeal, No. 87, Oct. T., 1903, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1897, No. 742, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Ferdinand Rondinella, Guardian of Joseph.Rizzo, Cornelius Rizzo, Annita Rizzo and Stella Rizzo, Minors, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Assumpsit on a policy of life insurance. Before BarRATT, J. See Baldi v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company-, ante, p. 275. At the trial the court permitted witnesses for the plaintiff to testify that the deceased prior to his death and at the date of the policy, appeared to be a man in sound health.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rtce, P. J.,
So far as the terms and conditions of the policy in suit, the statements in the application therefor, the statements in the proofs of death, and the evidence given on the trial in explanation of the latter statements, are concerned, this case does not differ essentially from the case of Baldi v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., in which we have this day filed an opinion. As these matters are quite fully recited and the questions raised by the first five assignments of error are discussed at length in our opinion filed in that case, it is unnecessary to go over that…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Wills v. HardcastleSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Baldi v. Metropolitan InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
- Ginder v. BachmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Rondinella v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902
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