Short v. LaFayette Life Insurance

This is an action for the recovery of the amount alleged to be due on a policy of life insurance. The insured was Effie Short; the beneficiary is the plaintiff, her surviving husband. The defense interposed was predicated upon false representations said to have been made by the insured in her application for the policy. According to the application she was in good health and had not recently been sick. The plaintiff admitted that the insured had not been well, but he testi- fted that be gave tbis information to tbe defendant’s agent; that tbe application was signed in blank, and that tbe…