Freise v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice McBride

delivered the opinion of the court.

4. Insurance, § 365*—what is evidence that company is not relying upon failure to promptly pay premiums as forfeiture of policy. In an action upon a life insurance policy, where it appeared that, after the death of the assured, the beneficiary paid an overdue premium at the office of the company without saying anything about the death, and where the policy had not then been forfeited, held that such facts were evidence that the company was not relying upon the failure to make prompt payment as a forfeiture of the policy. 5.…