Layman v. Continental Assurance Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

On September 1, 1963, the Continental Assurance Company delivered to Fred W. Layman a certificate of life insurance reciting that he was insured under the group policy issued by the company to the members of the American Welding Society. The insured died on January 22, 1964, leaving as his beneficiary the appellee, Leah Quay Layman. On April 13, 1964, approximately three months after Mr. Layman’s death, the company mailed to Mrs. Layman a copy of her deceased husband’s insurance application. It was the company’s position that, since Mr. Layman had falsified…