John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Esparza

POPE, Justice.

Appellant, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, has appealed from an adverse judgment which denied its prayer to cancel a reinstated life insurance policy and ordered that it pay the beneficiary of Adolfo Esparza the amount of the policy. The insurer’s suit to cancel was grounded upon certain fraudulent representations made by *696Esparza, the insured, to procure a reinstatement of the policy after it had lapsed. The trial was to a jury, which found that the insured made the false representations and that they were relied upon by the insurer. Judgment was granted on the…