Kerpchak v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict for the plaintiff below at the Bergen Circuit.

The plaintiff is the mother and beneficiary of Anna E. Kerpchak, whose life the. defendant company insured for $1,000 on April 3d, 1919.

The policy says that it was issued in consideration of the representations in the attached application made a part thereof, and further provides, as required by our Insurance law — Pamph. L. 1907, p. 133, § 1 (4) — that "all statements made by the insured shall, in the absence of fraud, he deemed…