Rice v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance

This is a suit by the plaintiff, J. E. Rice, against the defendant, The Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company, a corporation, for benefits arising from disability from rheumatism, under a monthly health and accident insurance policy issued to him by the Southern Surety Company of Des Moines and later assumed by the defendant, to which benefits he claimed to be entitled.

The suit originated before Preston Forsee, a justice of the peace in Kaw township, Jackson county, Missouri; and, from a judgment rendered on a trial had before said justice, an appeal was had to the Circuit Court of…