Mataya v. Delta Life Ins. Co.

McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit for recovery of the proceeds of a $500 life insurance policy in which the insurer seeks to avoid responsibility on the ground that the insured made material false statements in her written application for the insurance. The insurer prevailed in the lower court but the judgment was reversed on appeal, La.App., 58 So.2d 564, the Court of Appeal holding that, forasmuch as the policy was not one of industrial life insurance as defined by Section 7.01 of Chapter 7 of Act 195 of 1948, the Insurance Code, LSA-R.S. 22:-251, the special defense was not available to the…