Legal Opinion
First Trust Co. of St. Paul v. Kansas City Life Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 22, 1935No. 10276PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, Circuit Judge.
Appellants, as executors of Clarence E. Bergman, brought an action against appellee to recover on a policy insuring the life of Bergman. At the close of all the testimony the trial court directed a verdict for defendant. This is an appeal from the judgment entered on that verdict.
The defense to the action was that the policy was issued upon an application for insurance which contained certain pleaded willfully false statements as to the health and medical treatment of insured. The issues here have to do with the admission of evidence except as to the matter treated last…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Wolfle v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Hurni Packing Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1919
- Heiman v. Phœnix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Hoffman v. PalmerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1942
- John M. Palmer v. Alice Bradley Fisher, as of the Estate of Frederick T. Fisher, Deceased, Petition of Thomas F. PierceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1956
- Rhodes v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1949
- Eureka-Maryland Assur. Co. v. GrayCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1941
- Metropolitan Life Ins. v. MaddenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941
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