Freeman v. Loyal Protective Ins.

Plaintiff is the beneficiary in a policy of accident insurance issued to her husband by the defendant company. Insured died while the policy was in force and defendant refused to pay. Thereupon this suit was brought resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the full amount of the policy with interest, from which the defendant has appealed.

The petition alleged that in said policy defendant agreed to pay plaintiff the sum of $1000 if the death of J. M. Freeman, her husband, “should occur, while the policy was in force, as the result, alone and independently of all other causes, of…