National Life & Accident Insurance v. Strickland

We shall in the opinion refer to the plaintiff in error as the company, or the defendant; to the defendant in error as the plaintiff; and to Mrs. Strickland as the applicant or the insured'—according to which of such terms is most appropriate to the context in which it is used.

The only ground of the general grounds of the motion for new trial insisted upon here is that the verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff was without evidence to support it. The particular insistence of the defendant is that the verdict is not supported by evidence because: 1st. The application for the insurance, the…