Heffron v. Ætna Life Insurance

This suit is brought to recover upon a policy of insurance in the amount of $50,000 issued by the defendant upon the life of J. R. Boyce on the 8th day of February, 1929. The insured died February 13, 1929. The beneficiary named in the policy assigned her cause of action to the plaintiff’s testator, a resident of Connecticut. The insurance was solicited by an agent named Rogge.

The application was signed and medical examination made on February 4, 1929. On February seventh defendant’s general agent sent the pohcy with a signed receipt for the first premium to Rogge and with a letter clothing…