Woodruff v. Mutual Life Insurance

delivered the opinion of the court.'

In this ease the appellee, Rebecca Woodruff, as beneficiary of a life insurance policy taken out on the life of Carl R. Woodruff, sued the appellant, Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, in assumpsit, to recover the amount of the policy. The appellant filed the general issue and eight special pleas in defense of the suit. The appellee demurred to the special pleas, but the court overruled the demurrer to all the special pleas except the third and fourth, to which a demurrer was sustained. The third and fourth special pleas were thereupon amended by…