Owens v. North Carolina Mutual Life Ins.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Carter.

This suit by Thomas F. Owens, executor of the estate of Benjamin Thomas, deceased, against the defendant, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Orangeburg County, March 12, 1934, is an action based on an insurance policy issued by the defendant on the life of the said Benjamin Thomas, August 10, 1929, who died November 20, 1933. Issues being joined, the case was tried at the June, 1934, term of said Court before his Honor, Judge M. M. Mann, and a jury, resulting in a verdict for the…