Williams v. Unity Industrial Life Ins.

The plaintiff, as beneficiary, sues the defendant, an industrial life insurance company, to recover the .sum of $300, the face value of a life insurance policy upon which this suit is brought. The defendant pleaded fraud, alleging:

“That plaintiff knowing that the insured, Lillie Desport, was suffering from an incurable disease, cancer of the c'ervix and chronic myocarditis, etc., with a short life expectancy, induced the insured to fraudulently conceal from defendant that she suffered from said disease which made her an undesirable risk and uninsurable.’’

There was judgment in favor of…