511.30  Intoxication as defense.

In any action pending in any court of the state on any policy or certificate of life insurance, wherein the defendant seeks to avoid liability upon the alleged ground of the intemperate habits or habitual intoxication of the assured, it shall be a sufficient defense for the plaintiff to show that such habits or habitual intoxication of the assured were generally known in the community or neighborhood where the agent of the defendant resided or did business, if thereafter the company continued to receive the premiums falling due thereon.

Section History: Early form

  [C97, § 1811; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 8769; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 511.30]


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