HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
Upon a claim of a fraudulent breach of a contract of health and accident insurance, judgment was entered in the District Court requiring the insurance company to pay to the plaintiff $12,000 actual damages and $3,000 punitive damages. Its motions for the direction of a verdict in its favor, and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, were denied. We conclude that the denial of these motions was improper.
In 1928, the insurance...
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