Texas Life Ins. Co. v. Hatch

GRISSOM, Justice.

Oneta Hatch, et al., beneficiaries in a $1,000 life insurance policy issued to Willie Elizabeth Brown, deceased, and N. E. Springer and others, assignees of an interest in said policy, recovered judgment against the Texas Life Insurance Company for the amount of said policy, penalty and attorney’s fees. The Insurance Company has appealed.

The Insurance Company alleged that Mrs. Brown, on September 13, 1940, submitted to it a “non-medical” application for insurance; that the Insurance Company acted solely upon said application in issuing its policy, which was issued September…