Gulf Life Insurance v. Yearta
Gulf Life Insurance v. Yearta
Opinion of the Court
Treating the evidence as in conflict as to some of the payments of premiums having been accepted by the company’s agent several weeks after their due date, still the testimony for the plaintiff was not such as to show a custom on the part of the company in receiving payments for premiums after they were due and in not insisting on the premiums being paid in accordance with the policy contract. Taking the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff as to such alleged custom, it is shown by his testimony only that it was five weeks after the issuance of the policy that the, first premium was paid, and that h.Q paid '“two or three” weekly premiums of thirty cents that were more than four weeks past due. The plaintiff could not remember when these belated premiums were paid, because, as he testified, the agent entered them on his premium book as of the due date. So far as the evidence discloses, these premiums may have been paid in the early life of the policy, which was in effect for more than a year, after which time the terms of the policy were fully complied with until a short while before the death of the insured. Thus even the testimony of the plantiff shows no such custom as reasonably could be said to have induced the plaintiff to believe that payments of premiums four or five weeks after the due date would keep the policy in
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Judgment reversed.
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