Central States Life Insurance Co. v. Byrnes

HUGHES, Justice.

This suit was brought against Central States Life Insurance Company, appellant, by Margaret Byrnes, widow of Galen Byrnes, to recover on a life insurance policy (No. OL78S4) issued to him by Community National Life Insurance Company 1 on August 12, 1954, in the amount of $25,-000.00 and in which she was designated beneficiary. Mr. Byrnes died November 28, 1960. The policy sued on contained an incontestability clause reading, “This Policy will be incontestable after two years from its date of issue, except for non-payment of premium and except as to provisions and conditions…