Mutual Life Insurance v. Wiegmann

This is a suit in equity instituted by the plaintiff insurance company on November 2, 1921, to cancel a policy of insurance in the sum of $5000 issued by plaintiff, on November 5, 1919, on the life of David H. Wiegmann, wherein the defendant, Sophia M. Wiegmann, then the wife of the insured, was named as beneficiary.

The petition alleges that the policy was issued to Wiegmann in O’Fallon, Illinois, where the application therefor was made by him, and that in such application he agreed as follows:

“All the following statements and answers, and all those that I make to the Company’s Medical…