Southern Insurance v. Ray

1. The verdict, with the exception of the amounts found as damages for bad faith on the part of the defendant company and attorney’s fees, was authorized by the evidence, and the special grounds of the motion for a new trial, complaining of two excerpts from the charge of the court, show no cause for a reversal of the judgment.

2. This was a suit upon a policy of life-insurance which contained the stipulation that the policy should not take effect unless on the date of its delivery the insured was alive and in sound health. The insurance company’s defense was that the policy never took effect,…