Wooten v. Standard Life & Casualty Insurance

Moss, Justice.

This action was commenced on September 11, 1959, by Paul D. Wooten, the respondent herein, against Standard Life and Casualty Insurance Company, the appellant herein, to collect Five Hundred & 10/100 Dollars alleged to be due on a life insurance policy issued by the appellant on February 15, 1951, to Sara M. Wooten, and payable upon her death to the respondent. The insured died on May 30, 1953.

The answer of the appellant admits the issuance of the policy, the death of the insured and its refusal to pay the death benefit, but denies the allegation in the complaint that the…