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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 583
    ENDRESS v. INSURANCE CO.
    Ohio Appeals, Second District, Montgomery County
    No. 534.
    June 27, 1923
    This opinion has not been published except in Abstract
    CONTRACT — One who knowingly enters into illegal life insurance contract cannot recover premiums paid thereunder.
    Attorneys — Harry M. Wolfe, for Endress; James & Coolidge, C. F. Williams and Clyde P. Johnson, for Insurance Co.
   BY THE COURT.

Epitomized Opinion

Action to recover premiums paid under a void insurance policy. Demurrer to petition which set forth that the insured, Martha Hetzler, was no party to the contract and never consented thereto; that plaintiff was no relative of, next of kin to,, or creditor of said Martha Hetzler. Demurrer sustained. Error was prosecuted to this court. Held:

It'clearly appears in the petition that plaintiff ecame a party to an insurance contract illegal pon its face and contrary to public policy. He must have known at the time he made the payments sought to be recovered that he had no insurable interest in the life of the insured. Hence he is chargeable with notice that such' contract was against public policy. The demurrer was properly sustained. Judgment affirmed.