Wall v. Mutual Life Insurance

Plaintiff’s petition was the ordinary action on an insurance policy for the death, by accidental means, of her husband. The answer of the defendant, aside from a general denial,, pleaded in substance that, under the provisions of the policy and the law, the policy was not in force at the time of the death of the said Joseph Wall. By way of reply plaintiff pleaded first, that the company had no right to forfeit or suspend said policy, because the notice provided for in section 8959 of the Code was not given in the manner prescribed by said section and at no time did the defendant ever give…