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  "id": 2969987,
  "name": "William Neeley, Appellee, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Neeley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance",
  "decision_date": "1916-04-17",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "90",
  "last_page": "91",
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      "cite": "199 Ill. App. 90"
    }
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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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    "batch": "2018"
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "William Neeley, Appellee, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Boggs\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n2. Witnesses, \u00a7 33 \u2014when wife incompetent witness for husband. In an action on a life insurance policy by a husband as beneficiary, the wife of plaintiff is an incompetent witness in his behalf under Rev. St., ch. 51, sec. 5 (J. & A. U 5522.)\n3. Instructions, \u00a7 151*\u2014when instruction covered by given instructions properly refused. An instruction is properly refused where it is covered by given instructions.\n4. Instructions, \u00a7 96*\u2014when instruction on credibility of witness proper. In an action on a life insurance policy against a corporation, an instruction that if the jury believed from the evidence that plaintiff had wilfully sworn falsely as to any material matter on the trial then they might disregard his entire testimony, held improperly refused, since, one of the parties being a natural person, it was proper to direct the attention of the jury to his testimony and not draft the instruction so as to apply to both parties, as should be done where both parties were natural persons.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Boggs"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William P. Launtz, for appellant.",
      "James Gr. McHale and Edgar P. Holly, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "William Neeley, Appellee, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Appellant.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Insurance, \u00a7 233 \u2014when making of false statements hy applicant bars recovery on policy. The beneficiary in a life insurance policy is not entitled to recover thereon where the applicant made false statements as to whether she was suffering with disease at the time the policy was issued.\nAppeal from the City Court of Bast St. Louis; the Hon. Robert H. Blannigan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1915.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed April 17, 1916.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction of assumpsit by William Neely, plaintiff, against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, defendant, to recover on a life insurance policy on the life of the daughter of plaintiff. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.\nWilliam P. Launtz, for appellant.\nJames Gr. McHale and Edgar P. Holly, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cum.ilative Quarterly, same topic and section number.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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  "file_name": "0090-01",
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