36 Ga. App. 325 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1927
The exception in this case is to a judgment of the superior court dismissing a certiorari to review a judgment of the municipal court of Atlanta against the plaintiff and in favor of the defendant insurance company. The action was on an alleged policy of insurance in the sum of $550, which was never issued and which indeed ivas never applied for, except orally by the plaintiff, who was to be the sole beneficiary. The plaintiff made application for the policy in behalf of his brother, and paid four weekly premiums in advance. Before this brother, whose life was to be insured, could be located, in order that he might sign the written
When the company learned of the death of the person on whose life the insurance might have been written, it promptly offered to return the premiums which had been paid. With reference to these premiums the company’s general agent testified: “Mr. Webb kept collecting the premiums and I was holding up the application until I could get Matthews [the person to be insured] examined. 'If he had passed he would have received the policy, but I could not send in his application until he had been examined. . . I don’t know how long we would have continued collecting weekly premiums without examining him, . , We would probably have kept col
There was nothing to impeach or discredit any witness who testified. The above facts appear without dispute from the pleadings and the evidence. Under the principles stated in the headnotes, there was, as a matter of law, no liability against the company, and a verdict in its favor was properly directed. It follows that the superior court did not err in dismissing the certiorari.
Judgment affirmed.