United Fidelity Life Ins. Co. v. Adair

This suit was instituted in the district court of Lubbock county, Tex., by Mrs. Cassie Adair, the appellee, against the United Fidelity Life Insurance Company, appellant)"to recover $4,500, interest and penalty, on an insurance policy issued November 20, 1925, by appellant, to appellee’s husband, Eugene T. Adair, who died March 7, 1926. Recovery of reasonable attorney’s fees, alleged to, be the sum of $1,500, was also sought.

The appellant answered by general demurrer, general denial, admitted the execution and delivery of the policy, but pleaded that Eugene T. Adair died by self-destruction…