National Aid Life Ass'n v. Stroup

The plaintiffs’ action was founded upon a mutual benefit certificate issued by the defendant company to Bertha Stroup, the plaintiffs being the beneficiaries therein. The defendant set up as an affirmative defense that the policy had lapsed on the 25th day of February, 1931, for nonpayment of the February assessment called on February 10, 1931; that thereafter on March 3, 1931, the deceased executed a certificate of good health and was reinstated on March 24, 1931, remaining in good standing until the time of her death on December 27, 1932. That in said certificate she warranted that she was…