Dixon v. Standard Mutual Life Ins. Co.

Mr. Associate Justice Taylor

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

On August 1st, 1938, the appellant wrote a regular standard form of insurance policy on the life of Lemon G. Dixon, Eva P. Dixon, beneficiary. Nothing in the application for insurance was mentioned- about membership in any organization, and no mention of lodge' membership was made in the body' of the policy. On the back of the policy itself there was a clause saying that the insurance “shall end when his membership in Sunset Lodge, A. F. M. No. 331, shall end.”

The policy was delivered to Mr. Dixon and he paid sixty-seven…