National Life & Accident Insurance v. Dorsey

Lillie Mae Dorsey brought suit in the civil court of Fulton County against National Life & Accident Insurance Company on a policy of insurance which she had taken out on the life of her son, Lester Sims. The company defended on the ground that the insured made false and fraudulent representations as to his health, and fraudulently concealed material facts as to illness, it being alleged that, in the application for the insurance, the insured represented that he had suffered no illness except infantile paralysis when five years old, and that, while it was true that he had suffered from…