SELF v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

No. 9297.

56 F.2d 364 (1932)

SELF et al. v. NEW YORK LIFE INS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

February 19, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. R. McHaney, of Smackover, Ark., and Coulter & Coulter, of Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Louis H. Cooke, of New York City, W. H. Rector, of El Dorado, Ark., and A. F. House and Rose, Hemingway, Cantrell & Loughborough, all of Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before KENYON, VAN VALKENBURGH, and GARDNER, Circuit Judges.


KENYON, Circuit Judge.

John I. Self on June 6, 1929, received from appellee (designated herein as the "Insurance Company") a life insurance policy obligating it to pay to appellants, as beneficiaries, the sum of $10,000 in case of his death. On July 28, 1929, he died. The Insurance Company declined to pay the policy on the ground that the insured had knowingly made false statements in his application for such insurance, that he well knew when he made the application...

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