Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1938

Landau v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 9, 1938

168 Misc. 327; 6 N.Y.S.2d 112; 1938 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1802

Counsel

Alexander & Green [James D. Ewing and Samuel M. Lane of counsel], for the appellant., Murray B. Kestin [Adam Frank of counsel], for the respondent.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The clause in the policy exempting disability benefits from incontestability is not ambiguous and was regarded as sufficient in (Apter v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc., 271 N. Y. 653; Kushman v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc., 253 App. Div. 921; Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. Deem, 91 Fed. [2d] 569).

Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and complaint dismissed on the merits, with costs.

All concur. Present — Hammer, Shientag and Noonan, JJ.

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