RAMAMURTI J

The Life Insurance Corporation of India (Unit : The Oriental Government Security Life Assurance Co. Ltd. Bombay) hereinafter called the company, is the appellant in this appeal. The respondent Srimathi Parvathavardhini Ammal who is the widow of one V S N C ) has filed the suit, O S No. 62 of 1958, on the file of the Sub-Court, Tirchirappalli, to cover a sum of Rs. 20, 000 due under an Insurance Policy No. 1733287, dated 22nd May, 1954 and a sum of Rs. 30, 000 due under another Insurance Policy No. 1855372, dated 26th March, 1955, on the ground that the said policies were accepted at the ordinary rate by the insurance company certifying the life of V S N C aforesaid as a first class one by four eminent doctors of the company, that the plaintiff (respondent) was the nominee under the aforesaid two policies, that the said assured died on 20th May, 1955 on account of coronary thromobosis which attack set in on 17th May, 1955, and that the insurance company had wrongfully repudiated the claim of the plaintiff on 26th November, 1957

The three grounds on which the plaintiff's claim was resisted by the company were : (i) that V S N C the assured, was suffering from hi