Strasberg v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCohn, J.
This action was brought to recover death benefits under six life insurance policies issued by defendant in the total sum of $50,000 on the life of the insured. Each of the policies contains the following provision: “ Self-destruction sane or insane, within two years from the Date of Issue hereof, is a risk not assumed by the Society under this Policy.”
In Franklin v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. (298 N. Y. 81) it was held that a policy clause such as the one quoted, excluding death by suicide is inoperative if the insured at the time of his suicide was so far insane as to have been without…
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