Case Name: WILSON v. LIFE ASS'N OF AMERICA
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1876-10
Citations: 30 F. Cas. 143
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILSON v. LIFE ASS’N OF AMERICA.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 30
Pages: 143–144

Head Matter:
Case No. 17,818.
WILSON v. LIFE ASS’N OF AMERICA.
[3 Cent. Law J. 715, 765; 6 Ins. Law J. 240.]
Circuit Court, E. D. Missouri.
Oct. Term, 1876.
Life Insurance — Action on Poorer — Admissibility of Declarations of Assured.
The case of Wilson v. Life Ass’n of America, was lately decided in the United States circuit court in Missouri [by Treat, District Judge], up on the proposition that the declarations of the insured husband, made after the date of the policy, as to his health existing, or matters of private history occurring, prior to the date of the policy, are not admissible as evidence in a suit by lie wife upon her policy.
[Reprinted from 3 Cent. Law J. 715, 765, by permission.]

Opinion:
[Compare Evers v. Life Ass'n of America, 59 Mo. 420.]