Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Cannon

Suit on life policy. Emily J. Cannon, on the 1st day of July, 1868, being desirous of effecting an insurance on the life of her husband, John R. Cannon, for her own benefit, made a “ declaration ” accordingly to the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, agreeing therein that the answers of said John R. Cannon, and those of his physician and friend, should be the basis of the contract between herself and the company; and that if any untrue or fraudulent allegation was contained in those answers or in her “ declaration,” all moneys which were paid to said company on account of assurance made…