The plaintiff duly submitted proofs of the insured’s death, and demanded payment of $1,000. The defendant offered to pay $200 in settlement of the policy, and also judgment in such amount with costs. The plaintiff rejected the offer. Pursuant to an order of the trial court without findings, judgment for the full amount of the policy was entered. The defendant has appealed therefrom.
Decisions
The sole legal question involved in this case is whether the insured at the time of his death was subject, concerning his insurance contract, to the regulations of defendant restricting and concerning liability upon engaging in the occupation of a “soldier in time of war,” upon engaging in military service, or upon entering the service of the United States army. The plaintiff contends that three months before the death of the insured the order had notice and knew that the insured was in the service; that it thereafter received payment of assessments and lodge dues of the insured, and thereby waived the rules and regulations upon which it relies, and is estopped from urging the same; that under the regulations providing for a war permit and the payment of an additional war premium the order made provisions for the signing of an application upon a blank to be furnished by it, and that thereunder it was incumbent upon the order to establish that an opportunity was accorded to the insured to make such application while the order continued to receive the payment of the insured’s regular assessments and dues; that the record does not disclose that the death of the insured was occasioned by any increase of hazard through his entrance into military service or being a soldier in time of war; and that, pursuant to the decisions of this court in Myli v. American Life Insurance Co., 175 N. W. 631, 11 A. L. R. 1097, and Gorder v. Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., 180 N. W. 514, 11 A. L. R. 1080, the plaintiff is entitled to recover the entire amount of the insurance.
When the insured, while a civilian, became a member of the order with beneficial insurance, there was then in force the rules of the order concerning the options concerning which he agreed, and notice thereof was attached to the beneficial certificate issued to him. This regulation, accepted by the insured, provided that if he should enter the service of the United States army or should engage in military service he could continue his entire insurance in force by the payment of an additional war premium
