New York Life Insurance v. McNeely

This is an appeal hy New York Life Insurance Company, a corporation, hereinafter called defendant, from a judgment on an insurance policy issued hy it on the life of Howard B. McNeely, and in favor of Lillian McNeely, hereinafter called plaintiff. There is singularly little dispute in the actual facts shown hy the evidence, the real question being as to the permissible inferences to be drawn therefrom. These facts, so far as material to a decision, may be stated as follows:

On August 8, 1930, defendant issued to Howard B. McNeely a policy of life insurance, in the amount of three thousand…