Wabash Life Insurance Co. v. Grace

Motion for an appeal by Wabash Life Insurance Company from a judgment of the Bell Circuit Court awarding Lloyd M. Grace $1,449.53 recovery on two policies of insurance. One of the insurance contracts is a comprehensive hospital expense policy and the other provides for payment of income during confinement in a hospital.

The company defended on the ground of misrepresentation through concealment of the fact that the insured had been in a hospital for medical treatment on two different occasions in the year immediately preceding the issuance of the policies. Plaintiff maintained he had stated…