Atlanta Life Ins. Co. v. Coxson

BOND, Chief Justice.

This suit involves a policy of life insurance issued by appellant on March 3, 1941, on the life of Rustine Fredrick. Appellee’s wife, Ida Bell Coxson, sister of the deceased, was the named beneficiary in the policy, and on her behalf, appellee instituted this suit for $156, face of the policy, with statutory 12% penalty and $150 attorney’s fee. The only issue involved on this appeal, raised only by appellant’s answer, is that deceased was not an insurable risk at the time of the issuance of the policy, but was suffering from tuberculosis, from which he subsequently died;…