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Home Life Ins. Co. v. Fisher, 188 U.S. 726 (1903)
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Home Life Ins. Co. v. Fisher, 188 U.S. 726 (1903)
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Home Life Insurance Company v. Fisher No. 121 Submitted December 17, 1902 Decided February 23, 1903 188 U.S. 726
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
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The company defended an action on a policy of life insurance on the ground that statements of the insured as to his use of liquor and spirits in the application and in the declaration to the medical examiner were false and amounted to a breach of warranty, but it appeared that the warranty did not extend to the medical declaration; the jury were instructed that, if they found either that, before the. insured made application he drank liquors either freely or to excess, or at the time that he made the application he had a habit of drinking liquor, they were to find for the company, the declaration and the application thus being put on the same footing; the jury found for the plaintiff; held, that the jury must be taken to have found categorically that all of the answers were correct, and the question whether they were warranties or not became immaterial, and the verdict could not be reviewed except for improper instructions duly excepted to.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Home Life Ins. Co. v. Fisher, 188 U.S. 726 (1903) in 188 U.S. 726 188 U.S. 727. Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JHR92ZY5AMVJT9Y.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Home Life Ins. Co. v. Fisher, 188 U.S. 726 (1903), in 188 U.S. 726, page 188 U.S. 727. Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JHR92ZY5AMVJT9Y.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Home Life Ins. Co. v. Fisher, 188 U.S. 726 (1903). cited in 1903, 188 U.S. 726, pp.188 U.S. 727. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=JHR92ZY5AMVJT9Y.
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