Pyramid Life Insurance Company v. Trantham

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of appellee against appellant, based on verdict of jury, for the amount of two insurance policies issued by appellant on the life of Herbert P. Trantham, with his wife, the appellee, as beneficiary in each policy.

These policies, one for $1,000, dated September 12, 1946, and the other for $1,500, dated the same day, were issued without medical examination. Trantham died October 14, 1947, from nephritis. The defense was that the answers of insured in the application for the first policy and in the "statement of good health,” in reliance on which the…