Forbes v. Union Central Life Insurance

The appellants, as the beneficiaries named in a life insurance policy issued on the life of John F. Forbes, sued the appellee thereon for $5,000, the amount of insurance expressed in the policy. The superior court overruled a demurrer for want of sufficient facts to the second and third paragraphs of defendant’s answer, severally, and sustained a like demurrer to the second and third paragraphs of the plaintiff’s reply. And thereupon the plaintiffs withdrew the first paragraph of their reply, the same being the general denial, and refused to amend or plead further, and the trial court…