Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Dixon

GARDNER, Justice.

Plaintiff is the named beneficiary in the insurance policy of date June 15, 1931, upon which this suit is founded, insuring the life of his wife, Maggie Dixon, who died on November 19, 1931. The attending physicians at her last illness give the cause of her death as chronic myocarditis and nephritis; the former an enlargement of the heart, and the latter a diseased condition of the kidneys, commonly called “Bright’s Disease.” Both are serious diseases, which will shorten life, and the doctors, treating her state they will kill and are considered incurable. There was no proof…