Lucille Coleman v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, a Corporation

DUFFY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff sued to recover $5,000 on a certificate of life insurance issued to her husband, L. W. Coleman, an employee of National Malleable & Steel Castings Company, at Chicago, Illinois (hereinafter called “National Malleable”) under a group life insurance policy issued to it by Aetna. The certificate was issued December 1, 1955, and the insured, L. W. Coleman, died January 14, 1956. The suit was defended on the ground that the insured, in his application for coverage under the group policy, made material misrepresentations which, in the alternative, either materially…