Miller v. Illinois Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Boggs

delivered the opinion of the court.

An action in assumpsit was instituted by appellant against appellee in the circuit court of Henry county to recover the amount of insurance applied for in appellee company by one John Henry Miller.

The declaration sets forth that on April 8, 1927, appellee company, through its agent, “did solicit and induce” the said John Henry Miller to make an application in writing for a policy of insurance on his life, in favor of appellant, his wife, in the sum of $10,000; that Miller paid appellee the sum of $212.70 for the first year’s…