Hanley v. Occidental Life Insurance Co.

The plaintiff, Mrs. Hanley, commenced this action in the superior court for Spokane county, seeking recovery upon a death indemnity rider attached to an accident and sickness indemnity policy of insurance issued to her deceased husband, Daniel C. Hanley, by the defendant insurance company. The cause proceeded to trial in that court, sitting with a jury, and resulted in a verdict awarding to Mrs. Han-ley recovery in the full amount of the insurance specified in the death indemnity rider, she being the beneficiary named therein. Pinal judgment was by the court rendered accordingly, from which…