Civil

J. & W. Weems and Others v. Standard Life Insurance Co.

[1884] ScotCS 21SLR0453Court of Session1884

“Opinion ( per Lord Rutherfurd Clark) that where an answer to a query, material to the risk, is proved to have been untrue, it will void the policy, whether the untruth be due to conscious dishonesty …”

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