Cook v. Federal Life Ass'n

—The policy upon which this action is founded was issued to William E. Cook and payable to the plaintiff, Amanda M. Cook, who is his widow. The answer pleads several defenses, one of which is that the insured, at the date of the policy, was afflicted with piles. Another defense is that the insured was, at the date of the policy, addicted to the immoderate use' of intoxicating liquors, and that, as a result thereof, he had a disease called “delirium tremens.” It appears from the averments of the answer that, when the contract of insurance was entered into, the insured, in a written application…