Price v. Business Men's Assurance Co. of America

Appellant sued appellee in the circuit court of Pulaski County on an insurance policy issued by appellee, to her husband providing payment to her as beneficiary of $3,000 in the event of her husband’s death “from bodily injuries effected solely through accidental means.” It was alleged in the complaint that, during the. life of the policy, her husband, Joel Lee Price, was accidentally killed by being shot to death unexpectedly and by chance.

Appellee filed an answer denying that Joel Lee Price was accidentally killed but, on the contrary,' was killed by officers of the law in a fight which he…