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        "text": "George Rose Smith, Justice.\nThis is a suit brought by the appellee as the beneficiary of a $1,000 life insurance policy issued by the appellant upon the life of Lloyd Pierce, who died on August 25, 1964. The defendant filed a general denial, but it failed to file proper responses to the plaintiff \u2019s .requests for admissions of fact. Upon this state of the record the trial court granted the plaintiff\u2019s motion for a summary judgment.\nThe court was right. In an action upon an insurance policy a general denial merely puts the plaintiff to his proof; an affirmative defense, such as an exception in the policy, must he specially pleaded. Stucker v. Hartford Acc. & Ind. Co., 220 Ark. 475, 248 S. W. 2d 383 (1952). Hence in the case at bar the defendant\u2019s general denial merely put in issue the allegations of the complaint.\nThe plaintiff\u2019s requests for admissions covered all the material facts alleged in the complaint. The defendant\u2019s only response consisted of unverified denials signed only by its attorney. Such a failure to comply with the statute admits the facts asserted in the request for admissions. Ark. Stat. Ann., \u00a7 28-358 (Repl. 1962); Young v. Dodson, 239 Ark. 143, 388 S. W. 2d 94 (1965); Brown v. Lewis, 231 Ark. 976, 334 S. W. 2d 225 (1960). The complaint stated a cause of action. Inasmuch as there was no material fact left in dispute the court had no alternative to granting the motion for a summary judgment. Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 29-211 (c); Jones v. Comer, 237 Ark. 500, 374 S. W. 2d 465 (1964).\nAffirmed.",
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      "' E. V. Trimble, for appellant.",
      "Reinberger, Eilbott, Smith & Staten, By: Edward I. Staten, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Howlett\n5-3820\n400 S. W. 2d 294\nOpinion delivered March 14, 1966\n' E. V. Trimble, for appellant.\nReinberger, Eilbott, Smith & Staten, By: Edward I. Staten, for appellee."
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