Hammon v. Occidental Life Ins. Co.

FOURNET, Justice.

Mrs. Jennie Hammon, the named beneficiary in a policy issued on the life of her late husband, William J. Hammon, by the Western Mutual Life Association, sued the Occidental Life Insurance Company, which had assumed all of the obligations under the policy, to recover the face value thereof, $3,000, alleging that all of the premiums had been paid up until the date of her husband’s death, and, in the alternative, that if the .premiums had not been paid the policy had a reserve sufficient to extend it beyond the date of the insured’s death; further in the alternative, if the…