Bank Savings Life Insurance v. Baker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

This is an action in mandamus and under the declaratory judgment act. The point in controversy is whether the amended law relating to notice of forfeiture of life insurance policies applies to policies issued prior to its passage. The statute was originally enacted in 1913 (ch. 212), was amended in a particular not here important in 1923 (R. S. 40-332, 40-333), and substantially amended by chapter 184 of the Laws of 1925. As here printed *757the words in brackets were in the statute of 1913; those in italics were not. The amended statute omitted…