UNIVERSAL LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. v. MURPHY

No. 16428.

368 S.W.2d 878 (1963)

UNIVERSAL LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. S. T. MURPHY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Storey, Armstrong & Steger, and Paul S. Adams, Jr., Dallas, for appellant.

Sol Gordon, and Lattimore & Lattimore, and H. S. Lattimore, Fort Worth, for appellee.


RENFRO, Justice.

On April 8, 1957, Universal Life & Accident Insurance Company issued a policy of industrial life insurance in the principal sum of $500.00 to Mary Lois Murphy. Thereafter the policy lapsed for nonpayment of premiums, but was renewed on February 23, 1959. The insured died January 20, 1960.

This suit was instituted by the beneficiary on April 3, 1961, and on April 28, 1961, defendant filed an answer and a cross-action to cancel the policy...

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