Case Name: Della M. Dodder, appellant, v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1919-12-15
Citations: 104 Neb. 74
Docket Number: No. 20627
Parties: Della M. Dodder, appellant, v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee.
Judges: Sedgwick, J., not sitting.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 104
Pages: 74–79

Head Matter:
Della M. Dodder, appellant, v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee.
Filed December 15, 1919.
No. 20627.
Appeal from the district court for Douglas county: William A. Redick, Judge.
Affirmed.
A. 8. Churchill and Byron G. Burbank, for appellant.
Gurley & Fitch, contra.
1. Appeal: Affirmance. Where the verdict announced by the jury was the only one permissible under the law and evidence, the judgment will be affirmed, and in such case errors occurring at the trial were not prejudicial.
2. Insurance: Forfeiture. There is no forfeiture or denial of liability when the insurance company treats the policy sued upon as a valid or binding contract.
3. -: Defense: Waiver. If the insurance company at all times throughout the negotiations denies liability, and sends blanks to make proof of loss, subject however to its plenary rights to make whatever defense it may have, then there is no waiver of any defense it may have.

Opinion:
Aldrich, J.
It appears of record that the sanie witnesses appeared in this case as in Dodder v. Ætna Life Ins. Co., ante, p. 70. Also the same issues were rendered, and it was stipulated that the decision in this case should follow Dodder v. Ætna Life Ins. Co., supra. This decision therefore is
Affirmed.
Sedgwick, J., not sitting.