Braman v. Mutual Life Ins. Co.

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, as plaintiffs below, brought this action to recover $5,000 upon an alleged life insurance policy insuring the life of their .son, they being named as beneficiaries therein, it being alleged that the insured met his death by external, violent, and accidental means.

As a matter of convenience and to avoid' confusion, the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the lower court.

The defendant denied in effect that any contract of insurance had ever been consummated and pleaded certain provisions of or recitals in the written application signed by insured,…