DeGregorio v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The defendant issued its policy of life insurance on February 18, 1932, covering the life of an infant seventeen years old. She died April 26, 1933. Her parents were the beneficiaries named in the policy. By the application for the policy it was represented that the insured was in good health and had not been attended by a physician during the five years then last past; that she had not had consumption, or any serious illness. The defense was that the insured had consumption, and was being treated therefor at the time the policy was issued, and that such disease continued and ultimately…