American National Insurance Company v. Thompson

This is a suit upon an alleged life insurance contract on the life of Mrs. Beatrice D. Thomp son, naming as the beneficiary the plaintiff J. 0. Thompson. The defendant filed a plea denying that the policy was delivered during the lifetime of Mrs. Thompson or that it ever became bound on an insurance contract covering her life. The plaintiff filed a replication insisting that, if the policy never became a binding contract as insisted, defendant was, nevertheless, bound on a premium receipt issued by it to Mrs. Thompson providing interim insurance between the date of the application and the…