McDaniel v. Insurance Co. of Oregon

SCHWAB, J. (Pro Tempore).

This is an action by a surviving husband, individually and as administrator, against an automobile agency and credit life insurer on a policy issued to the deceased spouse. The court sitting without a jury found for all defendants on the ground that the plaintiff McDaniel had concealed the state of his wife’s health at the time the policy was issued.

In May of 1959 the defendant Insurance Company of Oregon issued to the defendant Dean and Taylor Pontiac Company a Group Creditors Life Policy. The policy, subject to the payment of the premium in each instance, insured…