Morford v. California-Western States Life Insurance

The question is whether the court erred in granting the defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. Reduced to essentials we have a case where the plaintiff, the alleged beneficiary in a policy of life insurance in the sum of $2,500, avers that the policy was issued upon the insured’s application; that the plaintiff and the insured performed all the terms, covenants and conditions of the contract of insurance on their part; and that the insured died while the policy was in full force and effect. The answer denies that any policy was issued, and alleges that the decedent applied in…