McGowan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The action is by the beneficiary of a policy of fife insurance. The company defends on the ground that the insured made false representations with regard to his health. In his application, made in 1928, the insured denied that he had had any surgical operations, serious illness or disease of the lungs, and denied that he had been attended by a physician during the preceding five years or that he had received treatment within that time in any dispensary, hospital or sanitarium.

Defendant asserts that it has learned that the insured had pulmonary tuberculosis for several years before he applied…