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SULLIVAN v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.

342 Mass. 649 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 771

JANET A. SULLIVAN vs. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 18, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Duggan, for the defendant.

David W. Walsh, (Walter J. Hurley with him,) for the plaintiff.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

SPIEGEL, J.

The defendant issued a policy on the life of Mark Sullivan on April 10, 1957. He died as a result of a ruptured intracranial aneurysm on May 8, 1957. This action is by his widow, the beneficiary named in the policy. The defendant relies upon the affirmative defence set forth in its answer that in the application for the policy the insured falsely represented that his then occupation was "Manager-Office," that he had not followed any other occupations in...

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