Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Hale

This case came before this court on two questions certified by the Court of Appeals, as follows:

"1. Where a policy of life insurance, issued after a medical examination but without a written application, provides that fif the insured is not alive or is not in sound health on the date hereof, *633. . or has within two years before the date hereof been attended by a physician for any serious disease or complaint, or before said date has had any pulmonary disease, or chronic bronchitis, or cancer, or disease of the heart, liver, or kidneys . . unless such previous disease is specifically recited in…