Southern Burial Insurance Company v. Baker

The appellant company on October 12, 1938, issued to Delia Balter a policy of insurance in the sum of $500. The appellee named herein is the beneficiary of that policy. On December 15, 1938, a little more than two months after this policy was issued, the insured died. Proof of death was made, but the insurance company denied liability. In answer to the complaint filed in this case the company pleaded that it operated a mutual assessment plan of insurance organized and existing under act 139 of the Acts of 1925; and that the policy of insurance was written without a medical examination and…