Massachusetts Mut. L. I. Co. v. Crenshaw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Etowah Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. E. Blackwood. Action by Birdie M. Crenshaw against the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for the face of a policy issued upon the life of John W. Crenshaw. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. For former report of this case, see 186 Ala. 460, 65 South. 65, where the necessary pleas will be found set out.
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Appeal from Etowah Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. E. Blackwood. Action by Birdie M. Crenshaw against the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for the face of a policy issued upon the life of John W. Crenshaw. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. For former report of this case, see 186 Ala. 460, 65 South. 65, where the necessary pleas will be found set out. Upon remand of the cause, defendant offered to file other pleas, the substance of which appears in the opinion, all of which were stricken, except plea AA, which is as follows: On, to wit, December 19, 1911, the…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
After the judgment first rendered in this cause had been reversed on appeal, and the cause remanded for a new trial (186 Ala. 460, 65 South. 65), defendant, now again appellant, offered to file a number of pleas which had been conceived in the effort to make a more satisfactory statement of the defense upon which, in varying shapes, it had previously relied, to wit, that the policy had been procured by the fraud of the insured. At the first trial, as appears from such of the original pleas as have been reproduced in the record before us, defendant averred that certain representations made by…
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