RANSOM v. PENN MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.

Docket No. S.F. 19016.

43 Cal.2d 420 (1954)

274 P.2d 633

LOIS M. RANSOM, Respondent, v. THE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keesling & Keesling and Henry C. Clausen for Appellant.

James F. Boccardo and Edward J. Niland for Respondent.


GIBSON, C.J.

The jury impliedly found that defendant refused to perform a contract in which it agreed with plaintiff's deceased husband, Ralph W. Ransom, to insure his life. Defendant has appealed from the judgment against it, contending that no contract of insurance was in force at the time of Ransom's death and that if any contract existed it was vitiated by fraud.

In September 1949 Ransom, who was 28 years old, was solicited for insurance by an agent of...

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