Long v. Kemper Life Insurance Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE UNVERZAGT

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, Huston and Edith Long, appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Lee County denying them equitable relief. Plaintiffs raise two issues on appeal: whether the trial court erred by denying plaintiffs’ motion to strike the affirmative defense of defendant, Kemper Life Insurance Company; and whether the trial court erred in relying on the doctrine of “unclean hands” to deny plaintiffs relief.

The parties stipulated to the following facts. Plaintiffs applied to defendant for a life insurance policy on the life of Huston…