Minnis v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

—This action was brought to recover on a life insurance policy issued by defendant to Emil Lesser, plaintiff’s intestate. From a judgment entered on a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for the sum of $1,950.40, defendant has appealed.

Defendant issued the life insurance policy on February 12, 1894, upon the life of Emil Lesser in the sum of $3,000. Lesser paid the annual premium up to and including the premium due on February 9, 1915, and no payments of premiums were made since that date. On January 30, 1914, Lesser borrowed from the defendant the sum of $987, to be repaid on February 9, 1915, with…