Fields v. Metropolitan Life Ins.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from tbe Chancery Court of Davidson County.— Hon. Jas. B. Newman, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. H. G. Morrison,, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
Mrs. Minnie Fields, as administratrix of Asbury Fields, filed her original bill to recover from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ufider two policies aggregating $460, with interest, and a penalty of twenty-fivé per cent. The bill charges that the insured, Asbury Field, was in due course of law convicted of murder and executed. The demurrer of defendant challenges the right to recover on the ground that legal execution is not within the causes of death for which liability under the policy could arise, because contrary…
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