Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Hedgepath

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe defendant in error, Mrs. Hedgepatb, sued tbe Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., in the Circuit Court of Davidson County, averring that she was tbe beneficiary in a life insurance policy which was issued by tbe defendant upon tbe life of her husband, Ogle V. Hedgepatb. There was a judgment entered in her behalf for five hundred dollars, tbe face of tbe policy. Tbe defendant’s chief defense, which was raised in a special plea, is that it did not owe tbe plaintiff for tbe reason that the policy was procured by fraud in that the insured contemplated and-…