Reserve Life Insurance Co. v. Meeks

121 Ga. App. 592 (1970)

174 S.E.2d 585

RESERVE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

v.

MEEKS.

44793.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Submitted October 7, 1969.

Decided March 20, 1970.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1970.

Spivey & Carlton, Milton A. Carlton, for appellant.

L. H. Hilton, for appellee.

DEEN, Judge.

1. The general rule, as recently reiterated in Allstate Ins. Co. v. Anderson, 121 Ga. App. 582, is that the knowledge of the agent being the knowledge of the principal, the insurer is estopped to void the policy because of misrepresentations in the application attached thereto where the agent, whose knowledge is…