Quirk v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 250
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 230

Syllabus

<p>Fraud — Evidence—Proof— Circumstantial evidence.</p> <p>Fraud may be proved by circumstantial evidence; it is not necessary that the evidence of collusion be conclusive; fraud and collusion may be shown by such facts and circumstances as will warrant a presumption of their existence.</p> <p>Insurance — Fraud— Question for jury.</p> <p>Where the evidence introduced by an insurance company defendant, if credited by the jury, must induce an almost irresistible conclusion of fact that the policy sued upon could not have been obtained on the life of the insured without the perpetration of fraud and that a fraud was perpetrated, the question was for the jury and it would have been error to have withdrawn it from their consideration.</p>