Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'n v. Houston

Marschel Houston carried an accident policy with a death benefit of $2000 with the Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, and he met a violent death by a gunshot wound in the hand of his son-in-law, Yirgil Pearson, on August 30, 1937, and the widow and beneficiary, Alice Houston, brings this action to recover upon the policy.

The deceased, Marschel Houston, was an employee of the Southern Railway Company at Robbins, Tennessee, and he boarded at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pearson; Houston’s home was in a near-by town, Crossville, Tennessee, where his…