Sikes v. Life Insurance Co. of Virginia
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil aotioN? tried before Word, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1907, of the Superior Court of MeckleNburo County. Upon the close of plaintiffs’ evidence, his Honor directed a verdict as of nonsuit, and the plaintiff appealed. The pertinent facts are set out in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The plaintiffs, husband and wife, alleged that they took out the policies on their own lives and lives of their children on false representations of the agent, that at the end of ten years they would get back all they had paid in, with four per cent, interest. The plaintiff J. M. Sikes testified that the defendant’s agent came to his house and asked him to take out insurance. He refused; but same agent came the 'second and third time and talked a good deal; that he, the plaintiff, signed no application; that the agent told him that if he died at the end of six months, if he kept up the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Caldwell v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
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