Jackson v. National Life & Accident Ins. Co.

LOONEY, Justice.

The parties will be designated as in the court below. The National Life & Accident Insurance Company, Inc., sued Wiley J. Jackson, beneficiary (the insured having died), to cancel a life policy issued by it to Walter W. Jackson for $1,000, the grounds alleged for cancellation being that the applicant intentionally made false answers in his application for the insurance, of a material nature, which became warranties, upon the faith of which the policy was issued; and that by reason of the fraud perpetrated, the policy never became binding as a contract.

A jury was impaneled to…