Legal Opinion · Dissent
New York Life Insurance v. Veit
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 5, 1944Published
1DissentDore, J.
May an insurance company, after full payment on the insured’s death to the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, thereafter recover part of such payment on discovering that the insured in procuring the policy fraudulently understated her age by sixteen years? The judgment appealed from entered on a jury’s verdict in favor of the insurance company answers that question in the affirmative. Defendants, executors of the beneficiary, appeal.
The complaint charges that one Minnie A. Bradbrook in 1923 made written application to plaintiff "for insurance on her life, representing she was born on…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Louisiana v. WoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Salt Lake City v. HollisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Columbian Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. BlackCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1929
- Pink v. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1937
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