PARATORE v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.


335 Mass. 632 (1957)

141 N.E.2d 511

CHARLES M. PARATORE vs. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 2, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Lyne, for the defendant.

Frank G. Lichtenstein & Louis Barsky, for the plaintiff, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, & WILLIAMS, JJ. Life insurance: conditions. Presumptions and burden of proof, Of disease.


RONAN, J.

This is an action of contract brought by the beneficiary in a policy issued by the defendant on June 27, 1951, upon the life of Ethel F. Paratore, the plaintiff's wife. After a verdict for the plaintiff, the case is here upon exceptions to the exclusion of evidence, to the failure to give certain requests for instructions, and to the charge.

The insured was about fifty years of age when the policy was issued. She had been an employee of a department...

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