Case Name: KUHN v. CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO.
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1922-11-06
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 444
Docket Number: No. 4094
Parties: KUHN v. CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 444–444

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.