Welch v. Missouri State Life Insurance Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fishburne.

This action was commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County by the plaintiff against the defendant on October 8, 1932, for the recovery of $3,000.00 damages, actual and punitive, for the alleged wrongful and fraudulent breach of a life insurance policy, No. 823385, in the face amount of $1,000.00, issued to the' plaintiff by the defendant on November 17, 1930, and for its alleged wrongful refusal to reinstate the same.

The defendant denied the material allegations of the complaint, and alleged that the policy had…