Case Name: The Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Penn et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1909-03-30
Citations: 80 Ohio St. 714
Docket Number: No. 10916
Parties: The Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Penn et al.
Judges: Summers, Spear, Davis, Shauck and Price, JJ.,. concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 80
Pages: 714–714

Head Matter:
No. 10916.
The Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Penn et al.
Decided March 30, 1909.
Error to Superior Court of Cincinnati.
Mr. James J. Muir and Messrs. Paxton & Warrington, for plaintiff in error. Mr. W. A. Hicks and Mr. W. F. North, for defendants in error.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed. Grounds stated in journal entry.
It is ordered and adjudged by this court that the judgment of said superior court in general term be and the same hereby is reversed for the reason that said insurance company did not declare said policy to be forfeited, nor did its refusal to receive premium due on June 26, 1886, and until it had made an investigation of Elijah G.'Penn's habits as to the use of intoxicating liquors, especially with the consent of said Penn, amount to a forfeiture of said policy, and that said insurance company had the right to withdraw its refusal to receive the premium as aforesaid at any time before it received notice of an election by the other parties to the contract to rescind the contract or abide by the refusal to receive, its payment. And this court proceeding to render the judgment which the said-superior court in general term ought to have rendered, it is hereby ordered and adjudged that the petition of the plaintiffs below be dismissed.
Summers, Spear, Davis, Shauck and Price, JJ.,. concur.