Wood v. Old Security Life Insurance

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellee June Davis Wood (plaintiff), administratrix of the estate of Lewis Melvin Wood, deceased, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Itawamba County, Mississippi, against Old Security Life Insurance Company (“Old Security”) to recover proceeds under a policy of credit life insurance. Old Security, on the basis of diversity of citizenship, removed the action to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. After removal, plaintiff filed an amended complaint naming as additional defendants the Bank of Red Bay (“Bank”) and Billy Marl Bolton, Pat…