Lumpkin v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

The plaintiff offered three witnesses, herself and two others. Taken as a whole, their testimony was to the effect that in 1941 the insured went to a hospital several times for checkups and treatment; that following an operation in the late nineteen thirties she took care of her own house, performed general housework for others regularly by the day and was constantly engaged in activities of the church in which she was interested.

Defendant called as a witness the record clerk of the Cincinnati General Hospital, who testified from the hospital records that from October 17, 1940, to October 31,…