Woodruff v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York

Mr. Presiding Justice Niehaus

delivered the opin- • ion of the court.

The appellee, Rebecca Woodruff, as beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $2,000 on the fife of her son, Carl R. Woodruff, who had deceased, commenced this suit in the circuit court of Pike county against the appellant, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, to recover the amount for which the policy had been issued. The declaration was filed in the suit, which is in the usual form alleging a breach of the insurance contract. In defense the appellant pleaded the general issue, and a number of special pleas…