Morlier v. Atlas Life Insurance

REGAN, Judge.

■Plaintiff, Mrs. Catherine Morlier, the named beneficiary in a contract of insurance issued to her son, Whitney F. Morlier, instituted this suit against the defendant, Atlas Life Insurance Company, Inc., endeavoring to recover the sum of $1,000, the double indemnity benefit thereof.

The defendant answered and denied that it was indebted unto plaintiff in any sum whatsoever for the reason that the plaintiff fraudulently, attempted to secure a reinstatement of a lapsed policy at a time when the insured was no longer an insurable risk.

From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff as…