Brown v. Peoples Industrial Life Ins.

Plaintiff was named beneficiary in a policy of industrial life insurance issued by defendant company on the life of William King.

A certain William King died in the Charity Hospital in New Orleans on April 4, 1928, in which institution he had been placed on April 2, 1928, suffering from diseases of infinite variety, which were later catalogued as follows: “Broncho-Pneumonia Chr. Myocarditis & Nephritis-Auricular Fibrillation Arterio-Sclerosis-Syphilis.”

Defendant insurance company refused to pay to the beneficiary the proceeds of the policy ($265), and this, suit resulted.

Defendant resists…