Aetna Life Insurance v. May

G-rieein Smith, Chief Justice.

Litigants sought answer to the plaintiff’s assertion that a life insurance policy had been wrongfully terminated. From a jury’s verdict requiring consideration of confusing and inconsistent equations — involving calculations from which one moderately versed in mathematics would retreat, and in respect of which an expert could only state a conditional result — the defending insurer has appealed.

The $2,000 policy on the life of Maurice Marion May was issued November 18, 1926, when he was 18 years of age. He died April 30, 1948. Mrs. Dora E. May, the insured’s…