Herdman v. National Reserve Life Insurance Co.

MILLER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy issued on the life of her husband in which she was the named beneficiary. The defense was that the deceased insured, in his application for said policy, had given false and misleading answers to the questions therein, which were material to the risk and which induced defendant to issue the policy which it would not have done had it known the true facts.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff, claiming primarily that the trial court erred in…