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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 433
    KUHN v. CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO.
    Ohio Appeals, 8th Dist., Cuyahoga County
    No. 4094.
    Decided Nov. 6, 1922
    723. LIFE INSURANCE — Where an insured willfully misrepresents the warranties in the policy, the beneficiary cannot recover.
    Attorneys — Griswold, Green, Palmer & Had-den, for Kuhn; John H. McNeal, for Assurance Company; all of Cleveland.
   INGERSOLL, J.

Epitomized Opinion

Published Only i-n Ohio Law Abstract

This was an action on a life insurance policy. In the application for the insurance, the plaintiff, Kuhn, was asked certain questions. The Insurance Company claimed that some of the answers given by the plaintiff to these questions in the application were willfully false and untrue. It pleaded that these answers were material. If offered in evidence the testimony of several doctors to the effect that they had treated Kuhn several times for tuberculosis. The court directed a verdict for the defendant. In sustaining the verdict of the lower court, the Court of Appeals held:

1. As the decedent willfully and knowingly made unture answers to certain interogatories as to his physical condition concerning material matters, he broke the conditions of his policy and the beneficiary could not recover the amount thereof at his death.