Security Mut. Life Ins. v. Harwood

In this action the defendant in error recovered a judgment for the premiums, with interest, paid upon a policy of life insurance, in which the company promised to pay $3,.000 in the event of his death during the term of his “probable life,” which, at his age, was 23 years.

The amount of each annual premium was-$84.60. The first was paid on March 20,. 1900, when the policy was issued, and .the last on March 20, 1922.

The ground upon which the insured claimed to recover the premiums which he-had paid, with interest from the date of payment, was that there was a mutual mistake-of the parties to…