Katherine A. McCullers v. Auto-Owners Life Insurance Company

This appeal arose as a result of a jury verdict in favor of the defendant Auto-Owners Insurance Company (“Auto-Owners”) and against the plaintiff, who was the beneficiary of her husband’s application for a life insurance policy with appellee. Appellant challenges certain jury instructions 1 which limited the scope of the jury’s *1492inquiry to facts which were known to appellee prior to the applicant’s death. We affirm the judgment, because we conclude that the trial judge could have directed a verdict in favor of appellee on the ground that the policy was not in effect at the time of applicant’s…