American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Walstrom

GARDNER, Justice.

In Providence Savings Life Assurance Soc. v. Pruett, 141 Ala. 688, 37 So. 700, where certain provisions of a life insurance policy were sought to he pleaded in defense of a suit thereon, it was ruled the pleas were defective by reason of the words “among other things” (referring to provisions of the policy contract) based upon the theory that for all shown by the plea the “other things” averred to be in the contract may have so controlled the particular provision set up as to show it was not intended to be and was not in fact as it purports upon its face. Hunt v. Preferred…