Farm v. Royal Neighbors of America
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $1,000 upon defendant’s benefit certificate. The case was tried before Fesler, J., who at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $1,103.50. From an order denying its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Action to recover the amount of a benefit certificate issued by defend*194ant, a fraternal beneficiary society, on November 21, 1914, to Frances Farm, who died June 26, 1917. Defense that the contract was void because the assured had falsely stated, in the medical examination made a part of her application for the insurance, that she had not consulted a physician in regard to a personal ailment within the preceding seven years; that she had never been an inmate of a hospital, and that she had never had appendicitis nor any disease of the genital organs. The jury returned a verdict for…
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