Commonwealth Life Ins. Co. v. Bruner

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On April 21, 1943, one of the appellees and a plaintiff below, Maude Bruner, signed an application addressed to the appellant, and defendant below, Commonwealth Life Insurance Company, of Louisville, Kentucky, for the issuance of a life insurance policy in the sum of $400 on the life of her son, O. Jack Bruner, who was then not quite 12 years of age.

The application was favorably acted on by appellant by its issuing the policy applied for, on May 3, 1943, in which appellees (father and mother) were named beneficiaries. The insured died on the…