Case No. 17,818.

WILSON v. LIFE ASS'N OF AMERICA.

[3 Cent Law J. 715, 765;¹ 6 Ins. Law J. 240.]

Circuit Court, E. D. Missouri.

Oct. Term, 1876.

LIFE INSURANCE—ACTION ON POLICY—ADMISSIBILITY OF DECLARATIONS OF ASSURED.

The case of Wilson v. Life Ass'n of America, was lately decided in the United States circuit court in Missouri [by Treat, District Judge], upon 144the proposition that the declarations of the insured husband, made after the date of the policy, as to his health existing, or matters of private history occurring, prior to the date of the policy, are not admissible as evidence in a suit by the wife upon her policy.

[Compare Evers v. Life Ass'n of America, 59 Mo. 429.]

¹ [Reprinted from 3 Cent Law J. 715, 765, by permission.]

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