Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. Freeman

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee, Maymie 0. Freeman, against the appellant, the ¡Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, on March 25, 1896, upon the policy of insurance described in our conclusions of fact. The substance of the policy was pleaded in appellee’s petition, and such facts were averred as, if true, would show the liability of appellant.

The appellee answered by general and special exceptions, a general denial, and by pleading specially that, when killed, the assured was engaged as a brakeman on a railroad train, and therefore by the terms of the…