Trull

Trull v. the Independent Order of Puritans

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1919 Cal. App. LEXIS 9·40 Cal. App. 479·181 P. 89
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 28, 1919Civ. No. 2733.California1,794 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Langdon, J.

The defendant appeals from a judgment on a life insurance policy issued by the Knights of Honor and assumed by the defendant.

From an examination of the entire record, it appears that in 1890 the Knights of Honor issued a policy or certificate of insurance in the name of George E. Prull, which was delivered to George E: Trull. The Knights of Honor received payments of premiums from Trull for something over twenty-five years, the last payment having been made in November, 1915, one month after the Knights of Honor had gone into the hands of a receiver. The acceptance indorsed on the certificate was signed George E. Trull. On November 13, 1915, Trull made an application to the defendant for the latter organization to assume the insurance, in which the applicant recited the facts of his membership in the Knights of Honor, warranted that he was then in sound health, that he knew fio cause in connection with his physical condition that would be a bar to his securing life insurance, or would in any way shorten his life, and that any untruthful statements or violations of the laws of this order should render his certificate void. This application was accepted by the defendant, which…

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