Lamar v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Ass'n

The defendant-appellee, the Iowa, State Traveling Men’s Association, is an insurance company with its principal place of business at Des Moines.

On May 19, 1931, two accident insurance policies- were issuéd by the appellee to Kirby Lamar. Lamar, at the time, was an attorney engaged in the practice of law at Houston, Missouri. Thereafter, on January 4, 1932, while the insurance policies were in full force and effect, the insured was found dead in a garage. When Mrs. Lamar found her husband, the insured, dead, the doors to the garage were almost closed and the engine in his automobile was…