Mullen v. Union Central Life Insurance

Citations

• 182 Pa. 150
• 37 A. 988
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 783

Syllabus

<p>Insurance — Life insurance — Agent—Application.</p> <p>Where an applicant for life insurance correctly informs the agent of the insurance company of other policies upon his life, and the agent in filling in. the blank spaces in the application fails to mention certain of these policies, and the application is signed by the insured without its being read by 0«? to him, the insurance company is bound by the omission or neglect of its agent, and cannot claim that the policy is invalid.</p> <p>Life insurance — Insurance by creditor — Evidence—Gross-examination.</p> <p>Where a beneficiary in a policy of life insurance is the brother of the insured, and in support' of his claim as a creditor of her estate testifies to services rendered the insured during twenty years for which he says that he expected to be paid, although he had kept no account of them, it is not improper in cross-examination to ask him whether he had made any effort to collect his claim out of the estate of the insured.</p> <p>Life insurance — Insurable interest — Brother and sister.</p> <p>Not decided whether a brother has an insurable interest in the life of his sister, on the ground of kinship alone.</p> <p>Evidence — Affidavit of defense — Reading affidavit of defense not offered in evidence.</p> <p>It is reversible error for a trial court to permit counsel for plaintiff to read in his argument to the jury the affidavit of defense filed in the ease, when such affidavit has not been offered in evidence by either side.</p>