Bankers Health & Life Insurance v. Nichols

In an action upon two policies of industrial life-insurance, Lillie Nichols was awarded a verdict and judgment against Bankers Health & Life Insurance Company for $239. A motion for a new trial was denied, and exceptions were taken.

It is urged in support of the general grounds of the motion *537for a new trial that iiie plaintiff below, in her own belialf, testified falsely concerning essential facts upon which her right to a recovery depended, and that consequently her entire testimony should have been rejected, agreeably to the maxim “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.” To maintain this theory…