John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. DeWitt

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing.

The appellee, Mrs. Artie DeWitt, brought this suit against the appellant, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, to recover on a policy for $1,000 issued her daughter, Margaret DeWitt, and wherein .she was named beneficiary.

It is disclosed by the record that about the 1st of May, 1931, a solicitor or agent of the company in Louisville, Ky., Malcolm Young, who had for several months sought to have Mrs. DeWitt take out a life policy upon her fifteen year old daughter, Margaret, called at their home in Louisville and procured Margaret’s…