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RUHLIN v. N.Y. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 596.

304 U.S. 202 (1938)

58 S.Ct. 860

82 L.Ed. 1290

RUHLIN ET AL. v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles H. Sachs, with whom Mr. Charles J. Margiotti was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. William H. Eckert, with whom Mr. Louis H. Cooke was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

On February 14, 1935, the New York Life Insurance Company, respondent here, filed its bill of complaint in the District Court for Western Pennsylvania to rescind, because of certain misrepresentations, the disability and double indemnity provisions in five policies issued on the life of defendant John G. Ruhlin, and made in favor of the other defendants as beneficiaries.

The bill alleged that the plaintiff...

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