Reed v. Prudential Insurance Co.

This is a suit on a contract of life insurance. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $1,000, together with the sum of $170 damages and $350 attorneys’ fees. Thereafter, plaintiff remitted $70 of the amount of damages allowed. Defendant has appealed.

The facts show that sometime during the summer of 1928, probably in flie month of June or July of that year, one Clarence Reed, the husband of plaintiff, was solicited at his residence in Kansas City, by one Kirby Lee Smith, defendant’s agent, for life insurance upon Reed’s life and that an application for the…