Southern States Life Ins. Co. v. Watkins

BOND, Chief Justice.

This is a suit on a life insurance policy on the life of Dora T. Watkins, mother of appellee. The policy was issued on June 1, 1942, and the insured died on June 29, 1942, at St. Lawrence Hospital, Lansing, Michigan, from pyelonephritis — renal failure, superinduced by arterio sclerosis, "and chronic myocarditis — commonly called kidney disease. The Insurance Company denied liability on the ground that, on the date of the policy and its delivery to the insured, she was not in sound health, a condition for liability under the terms of contract other than the return of all…