REESE v. AMERICAN NATIONAL INS. CO.

No. 12613.

175 F.2d 793 (1949)

REESE v. AMERICAN NATIONAL INS. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest B. Jackson, and Joe H. Daniel, Jackson, Miss., for appellant.

William H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., and Charles G. Dibrell, Jr., Galveston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

On August 1, 1946, Johnny Elmo Reese, then aged twenty-two years, applied for a $10,000.00 life insurance policy with double indemnity provisions, and received from an agent of the Appellee insurance company a receipt for the sum of $147.30 in cash, which receipt contained the following pertinent conditions:

"Conditions: One * * * Enough of the insurance applied for in such application to make the Company's aggregate insurance on the...

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