Hayes v. Durham Life Insurance Company

Mrs. Annie C. Hayes instituted this action to recover $6,500 from the defendant, the Durham Life Insurance Company. She alleged in her motion for judgment that she was the beneficiary named in a “certain contract of life insurance,” between the defendant company and Ozy Earle Hayes, her late husband, and that such contract was in full force and effect at the time of her husband’s death. The defendant company filed its answer and grounds of defense, in which it admitted that Ozy Earle Hayes had made an application to it for life insurance; but denied that his application had ever been…