MATAYA v. DELTA LIFE INS. CO.

No. 40927.

62 So.2d 817 (1953)

222 La. 509

MATAYA v. DELTA LIFE INS. CO.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 12, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Normann & Normann, New Orleans, for Delta Life Ins. Co.

Normann, Schonekas & Normann, New Orleans, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, Warren O. Coleman, New Orleans, for amici curiae.

Graham & Graham, New Orleans, for Richard Mataya.


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...

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