Housour v. Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America

This is an action brought by Josephine Housour, as beneficiary, to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy, issued February 22, 1961, by defendant Prudential Life Insurance Company of America on the life of ber husband, Harry Housour, who died on October 26, 1962, of acute coronary thrombosis.

In his application for insurance, decedent affirmatively answered the question whether he ever had X rays, electrocardiograms, blood or other medical tests. In the space provided to elaborate on every affirmative answer the decedent stated only that he had an appendectomy in 1932 and had lost…