United Founders Life Insurance Co. v. Carey

HUGHES, Justice.

This suit is upon and in connection with an alleged contract of life insurance between appellant, United Founders Life Insurance Company, and the insured, Billy Gene Bruce, for the benefit of appellee, Glynda Bruce Carey, the surviving but remarried wife of insured.

Trial to a jury resulted in a judgment for appellee for the principal sum of $25,-000, the amount of the alleged insurance.

On July 27, 1958, the insured who was then an insurance salesman for the appellant Insurance Company applied to it, in writing, for life insurance on himself for $25,000, naming his wife,…