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  "name": "David A. Teegarden, Appellee, v. Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Teegarden v. Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur",
  "decision_date": "1914-10-16",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "474",
  "last_page": "475",
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      "cite": "190 Ill. App. 474"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "David A. Teegarden, Appellee, v. Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Eldredge\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles Troup, for appellant.",
      "Thomas A. Graham, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "David A. Teegarden, Appellee, v. Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Vermilion county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1914.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 16, 1914.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by David A. Teegarden against Supreme Tribe of Ben-Hur on a certificate of beneficial membership issued to Bosa A. Teegarden, deceased wife of plaintiff, in her lifetime, in the sum of five hundred dollars.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 876 \u2014When verdict sustained where evidence as to falsity in answers to application conflicting. In an action On a certificate of beneficial insurance, where the insurer claims that false answers were made in the application, the burden of proof is on it, and where the evidence is conflicting, the verdict for plaintiff will not be disturbed.\n2. Insurance, \u00a7 752*\u2014When fraud of agent in answering questions in application for life insurance policy not a defense. Where the insurer\u2019s agent, authorized by it to solicit insurance, take applications, fill in a part of them and collect first premiums, writes false answers in the application for a certificate of beneficial insurance in an action on the certificate the insurer is estopped to set up the falsity of the answers as a defense, the agent\u2019s knowledge being the knowledge of the insurer.\nThe defense was that certain answers by the insured in the application for insurance were false. To this plaintiff filed replication that defendant\u2019s agent, of his own initiative, inserted false and different answers without the consent or direction of the insured, and that certain other answers were inserted by him without any question being asked and were the answers of the agent and not of insured.\nThe jury found the issues for the plaintiff and returned a verdict for five hundred dollars, on which verdict judgment was entered. From this judgment, defendant appeals.\nError is assigned on the failure of the court to direct judgment for defendant on the ground that the answers were warranties and the defendant is not es-topped by its agent\u2019s fraud to set up their falsity.\nCharles Troup, for appellant.\nThomas A. Graham, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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