• 1912 - LC - SLOCUM v. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO
  •  - 65p
  • 2022 1222 - CRS -The Right to a Jury Trial in Civil Cases Part 5: he Bar on Reexamining a Jury’s Findings of Fact - 3p
    • ” In 1913, in Slocum v. New York Life Insurance Co., the Supreme Court held that a federal appeals court lacked authority to order the entry of a judgment contrary to a trial court’s verdict

• It is a well established principle of law in this state that where limitations on the soliciting agent’s authority are contained in the application, the insured is bound to take notice thereof and he cannot hold the company bound for acts of the agent beyond such limitations, nor can such an agent bind his principal by an act of waiver which conceals information in the application material to the risk.
  • Commonwealth Life Ins. Co. v. Bruner, 299 Ky. 335, 185 S.W.2d 408; Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Lampley, supra; Connecticut Fire Ins. Co. v. Roberts, 226 Ky. 534, 11 S.W.2d 148; and Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Jenkins, 290 Ky. 802, 162 S.W.2d 791.

1951 - LC - Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Tannenbaum, 240 S.W.2d 566 (1951), June 12, 1951 · Kentucky Court of Appeals