Seiders v. Merchants Life Ass'n of United States
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Travis County. Mrs. Seiders .sued the insurance company and the latter had judgment in the trial court canceling the policy sued on upon return of the premium paid. Plaintiff appealed, and on affirmance of the judgment obtained a writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The plaintiff sued the defendant upon a policy of life insurance upon the life of her husband, - P. W. Seiders, for the sum of $3000. The defendant pleaded, among other things, that the deceased, in his application for insurance, represented and warranted that he had never made application for insurance to any other company which had been rejected, and that the said representations were false in fact. The plaintiff replied, setting up the law of the State of Missouri hereafter copied in the statement of the case. The trial was had before the district judge, who filed…
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