Sterling Life Insurance v. Rapps

This is an action in assumpsit hy appellee „against appellant to recover the amount of a benefit certificate issued to Edward Rapps in his lifetime, for the sum of $1,000, wherein appellee, the wife of the insured, is named as beneficiary. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment against appellant for $1,076.49, being the face of the certificate and interest.

During the summer of 1903, appellant, which was organized as an assessment life insurance company, was engaged in procuring the required 500 applications for life insurance necessary to procure its charter. The requisite number…