Legal Opinion
Ludwinska v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 30, 1935No. Appeal, 211PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Kephart,
Bertha Ludwinska applied for an industrial life insurance policy representing herself in the application as being thirteen years of age. She named her mother as beneficiary, and signed the application “Victoria Lud-winska,” taking the physical examination for Victoria. The policy was delivered to her. Victoria was her sister . confined in an asylum as an imbecile, and had been so for four and a half years. Victoria died more than two years after the policy had been issued and delivered to Bertha. Suit was thereafter instituted on it by the beneficiary as being a…
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