Williams v. First Colony Life Insurance Co.

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Mavis Williams seeks to recover $15,000.00 as the beneficiary of an insurance policy which was projected to be issued by the defendant First Colony Life Insurance Company on the life of her husband. On the basis of facts shown in the pleadings, documents, affidavits and depositions (the submissions), the district court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that the insurance had never taken effect because the deceased had not complied with the plainly stated prerequisite condition of taking a medical examination prior to his death.

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