Rearden v. State Mutual Life Insurance
Supreme Court of South Carolina
■Before Watts, J., Saluda, Action by Luia Rearden against State Mutual Life Insurance 'Cbmpany. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Admission of evidence tending to1 contradict statement in application was improperly admitted: 70 S. C., 306; Vance on Ins., 382; May on Ins., Sec. 137; 3 Cool. Briefs on' Law, of Ins., 3518; 117 U. S., 519-; 92 Fed.
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■Before Watts, J., Saluda, Action by Luia Rearden against State Mutual Life Insurance 'Cbmpany. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. cite: Admission of evidence tending to1 contradict statement in application was improperly admitted: 70 S. C., 306; Vance on Ins., 382; May on Ins., Sec. 137; 3 Cool. Briefs on' Law, of Ins., 3518; 117 U. S., 519-; 92 Fed. R., 503; 40 L. R. A., 359'; 183 U. S., 308; 80 Fed, R., 684; 27 N. Y., 480'; 122 N. Y., 274. Statement of Court aibout insurance companies making rules to meet decisions of courts mas a charge on the facts: 47 S. C, 506; 33, S. C.,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
Rula Rearden, the plaintiff, brought this action against the defendant to recover one thousand dollars, and interest thereon, from March the first, 1907, under a policy of insurance issued by. the defendant company on the life of her husband, Walter F. Rearden, on the 7fb day of September, 190'6; the said Walter F. Rearden having died 'on the 31st of January, 1907.
The defendant admitted that it had issued the policy referred to, the said policy of insurance, and gave as its reasons -for not paying the policy that the insured made…
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