Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Zeigler

This was assumpsit upon a policy of life insurance.

The defendant plead the general issue; also a special plea, alleging that in her application for the policy the deceased stated that she never had any disease of the kidneys or the lungs; that said statement was false; that she had, prior to that time, been afflicted with such diseases and was then, and so continued to be until her death, and that such diseases contributed thereto. The plaintiff demurred generally to this plea, and the court sustained the demurrer. The policy was issued upon consideration of the answers and statements…