Hartman v. Keystone Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This was an action of covenant to August Term, 1851, by Daniel Hartman, administrator of the estate of William Callender, deceased, v. The Keystone Mutual Life and Health Insurance Company of Harrisburg.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This was an action of covenant to August Term, 1851, by Daniel Hartman, administrator of the estate of William Callender, deceased, v. The Keystone Mutual Life and Health Insurance Company of Harrisburg. It was founded on a policy of insurance granted to William Callender, upon his own life, in the sum of f 5000, and was dated 26th March, 1851, for the period of one year, payable within sixty days after due notice and proof of the death of the insured. The insurance was effected in Harrisburg, about noon of the 26th March, 1851. The insured left…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Black, C. J.
— This was covenant on a policy of insurance for the benefit of William Callender, the plaintiff’s intestate, upon his *474own life. The defence set up by the company was that the assured had committed suicide, and that when he made application for the insurance he represented his occupation to be that of a farmer, though he was in fact not a farmer but a slave-catcher. It was also pleaded that he had been engaged in running railroad cars, but the evidence did not show it.
There are seventeen specifications of error, but some of them are…
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