Supreme Conclave Knights of Damon v. Saylor

Citations

• 79 Miss. 62

Syllabus

<p>Evidence. Age of person. Insurance.</p> <p>Where a benefit certificate, issued on the life of a member' by a benevolent society, provided that it should be void if the member in his application therefor made false representations touching his age, and in a suit thereon by the beneficiary, after the death of ' the member, it was shown prima facie that the member had, in his application, represented himself to be materially younger than he really was, a verdict for the plaintiff should not be upheld alone on mere conclusions of a witness drawn from his appearance after maturity and proof of declarations made years before by decedent to the effect that his age corresponded with the statements in the application, especially if the ease be suggestive that his age could have been easily proved.</p>