Toups v. Penn Mut. Life Ins. Co.

CAILLOUET, District Judge.

This suit was first filed in the proper State Court by a resident of Louisiana, in her admitted status of second designated beneficiary, duly substituted for the original, under the terms of a $5,000 life insurance policy, with double indemnity features, which was issued by the above named defendant insurance company to the late Roger L. Toups.

Removal to this proper Federal Court was regularly effected on motion of said insurer, which is domiciled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and trial was had without a jury.

The face value of the policy had been paid and accepted,…