State Ex Rel. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Baltimore v. Shain

This is a certiorari proceeding to quash the opinion of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in the case of Raymond W. King et al. v. Mutual Life Insurance Company of Baltimore, 89 S.W.2d 145, because it conflicts with prior controlling decisions of this court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, as follows:

"The evidence tends to show that plaintiffs husband and wife, at a time not disclosed, obtained from the defendant a policy upon the life of their infant daughter, Helen, in the amount of $220; that later, on April 20, 1933, the defendant's agent, Sedoris,…