State Farm Life Ins. Co. v. SPIDEL ET UX.

The action is before this court on petition to transfer from the Appellate Court under Supreme Court Rule 2-23. [See: State Farm Life Insurance Company v. Spidel (1964), 194 N. E. 2d 96, for Appellate Court opinion.]

This was an action by plaintiffs-appellees against defendant-appellant to recover the proceeds of a life insurance policy issued by the appellant on the life of appellees’ son, Kenneth D. Spidel. The issues upon which the case was tried were formed by appellees’ second paragraph of answer which alleged that on May 26, 1958, appellant issued a life insurance policy to said Kenneth…