Woodard v. Interstate Life & Accident Co.

This action is again before us on appeal in error.

This is an action on an accident insurance policy for $1,000 on the life of James D. Woodard, a young man of 28 years of age.

On the night of September 3, 1939, his dead body was found crushed and mangled on the track of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company, in the town of Cowan, Tennessee, parts of his body being scattered up and down the track from the crossing of Highway No. 64 south 150 feet or more.

There were no eyewitnesses to the infliction of his injuries.

The policy insuring his life was of the limited liability class,…