· 9/5/1867
Lee v. . Adsit
Citations
- 37 N.Y. 78
How courts have described this case
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- \Duty to disclose a material fact manifestly is not the same thing as materiality itself.\
- “Unless nondisclosure of a fact, concerning which he has not been asked, be fraudulent, the applicant’s omission to state it will not avoid a fire or life policy.”
- “If fraud be absent, the assured may remain silent in respect to many matters concerning which the underwriter fails to question him.”
- “Duty to disclose a material fact manifestly is not the same thing as materiality itself.”
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Judges: FULLERTON, J.
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