Rhame v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Calif.

The opinion of the Court was deliveréd by

Mr. Justice Carter.

This action by John M. Rhame, as plaintiff, against the defendant, the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California, was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Lee County, this State, July 14, 1933, for the purpose of recovering from the defendant the sum of $1,700.00, actual and punitive damages, alleged to have been sustained as the result of the wrongful breach of a contract of insurance issued by the defendant to the plaintiff, which breach of contract the plaintiff alleged to have been accompanied and caused by the…