Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. v. Iven

This is a suit by Mid-Continent Life Insurance Company to cancel “waiver of premium clauses” in two policies of life insurance upon the lives of the applicant’s children. The defendants are the widow of applicant and his two children. Trial was to the court without a jury. Judgment was rendered for the defendants and the plaintiff appealed.

The evidence is undisputed to the effect that V. C. Evans was a duly accredited soliciting agent for Mid-Continent Life Insurance Company, and that on February 12, 1945, he persuaded Vincent G. Iven to sign applications for two $1,000 policies of insurance,…