National Benefit Life Insurance v. Brown

Ansel L. Brown sued The National Benefit Insurance Company upon a policy of life insurance issued by the corporation upon the life of Frank Blackman with the plaintiff Ansel L. Brown as beneficiary. The policy was issued in the sum of five hundred dollars which the company agreed to pay to the beneficiary in the event of the death of the insured. The declaration alleges that Blackman died in April, 1930, and during his last illness the defendant represented to the plaintiff Brown that as he was of no blood relation to the insured that Brown could recover nothing upon the policy in the event…