Life & Casualty Insurance v. Gaines

Mrs. Mary E. Gaines, beneficiary, sued Life & Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee upon a life-insurance policy issued to Mary C. Gaines. The insurance company defended upon the ground that the policy was procured through fraud, in that Mary 0. Gaines had been to a doctor’s office several times and he had advised her' that she was pregnant, had prescribed a tonic and *546other medicine for her, and that her answer to a question in the application as to attendance by a physician was false. The question was: “Have you been attended by a physician during the last five years? If yes, give name of…