Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. Mittelhauser

On July 29, 1930, Ben Mittelhauser .contracted with the plaintiff in error for a policy of life insurance in the face sum of $5,000.00, with double indemnity in the event the insured came to his death by accidental means. The premiums were -payable quarterly in October, January, April, and July in the sum of $69.30 with thirty-one days’ grace. Mittelhauser was killed in an automobile accident December 9, 1931. His wife, Marie Schmidt Mittelhauser, claimed the face of the policy with double indemnity, the plaintiff in error contending that the policy had lapsed, declined payment, hence this…