Strand v. Bankers Life Insurance

This is an action against a life insurance company to recover $1,000 in damages for negligence in preparing, examining and approving an application for life insurance in the sum of $1,000, after receiving an annual premium, and in failing to issue and deliver a policy. Melvin A. Strand of Shelby, Nebraska, was the applicant. He died without procuring the insurance. As administrator of his estate, his father, Oscar Strand, is plaintiff. The Bankers Life Insurance Company is defendant. Its home office is in Lincoln, Nebraska. In an answer, defendant demurred to the petition, pleaded a return of…