Freeze v. the Continental Casualty Co.

The defendant, an accident insurance company, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in the chancery court of Shelby county in the sum of $2,000 principal and $75 in-interest, which judgment was rendered the 6th day of December, 1926. .

The complainant is the widow of Thomas A. Freeze. Thomas A. Freeze was killed from two shots fired by Stuart Gaston, a colored man, on January 17, 1926. Freeze lingered from the night he was shot until January 21, a little more than three days.

The defendant denied liability by reason of a clause in the insurance policy which had been properly issued…