Union Cent. Life Ins. Co. v. Short

Appellee sued appellant to recover the sum of $270, alleged to have been paid on an insurance policy on his life, which he alleged he had been induced to apply for and procure through the fraud of an agent of appellant. The cause was tried by jury, and, upon responses to special issues sub-mittéd by the court, judgment rendered in favor of appellee for $z98.39.

[1] It was claimed by appellee that the agent of appellant induced him to take out a $10,000 life policy, permitting other policies to lapse in order to insure with appellant, upon the representation of the agent that the amount of the…