Yonge v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.

On the fourteenth July, 1885, W. W. Yonge made application for insurance upon his life for the benefit of his wife, the complainant,, to the defendant company. An examination of that date, by a medical examiner of the company, was made, and the risk was reported as a good one. The papers were forwarded from Chattanooga to Louisville, Kentucky, to general agents of the company. These agents discovered an error or omission in the report of the medical examiner, and sent that paper back for correction. This delayed matters for about a week, at the end of which time the papers were forwarded to…