Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Shaw

On November 33, 1930, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company insured the life of' Oscar W. Shaw for $148, Mrs. Sarah Shaw, wife of the insured, being named as beneficiary. Shaw died July 6, 1931. The company refused payment, and Mrs. Shaw procured a verdict against it in the city court of La-Grange.

Several questions, are raised by the motion for a new trial, but the controlling .factor in this case, as we see it, is: Was the contract of insurance void ab initio because of fraud in its procurement? Defendant specifically pleads that, as the basis of and inducement for the insurance of the…