Legal Opinion
Drake v. Missouri State Life Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1927No. 7731PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN B. SANBORN, District Judge.
Bernice Drake is the widow of J. F. Drake, deceased. On August 8, 1923, he signed an application for life insurance in the defendant company for $50,000 “on the term N. P. S. C. plan, A, B, C, or D. - rate.” “N. P. S. C.” meant nonprofit sharing convertible. Mr. H. J. Brown, one of the company’s agents in Oklahoma, took the application, and “forwarded it to the company. Mr. Drake told Mr. Brown that he wanted the cheapest policy the company wrote. This was the nonparticipating, convertible 5-year term policy, plan “A.” The plan was not stated in the application…
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