Legal Opinion
Telford v. New York Life Insurance
California Supreme Court
Decided June 21, 1937No. L. A. 15143PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
The plaintiff sued as beneficiary to recover on a $1,000 policy of insurance issued by the defendant on the life of Catherine Telford, his deceased wife. The company, by answer and cross-complaint, defended on the ground of misrepresentations and concealments avoiding the contract. The plaintiff had judgment, from which the defendant has appealed.
In December, 1932, Catherine Telford made application to the defendant for a policy of life insurance in the sum of $1,000. In the course of the examination of the insured by the defendant’s medical examiner she gave a negative answer to…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Moulor v. American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Sun Mutual Insurance v. Ocean InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Schwarzbach v. Ohio Valley Protective UnionWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1885
- Ryan v. World Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
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