Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Davis

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

— Reversing-

A policy of life insurance issued upon the life of Robert Sigler for $2,000.00, Mrs. Blanche Sigler, now Blanche Davis, being beneficiary, is the subject of this litigation, commenced in the Union circuit court and resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of Mrs. Blanche Da,vis for the amount of the policy. •

Jn addition ■ to the traverse of certain. material averments of the petition, the defendant company pleaded affirmatively that the policy of insurance was void “ ab initio and never constituted a valid or binding contract of insurance…