National Casualty Co. v. Hampton

BOND, Chief Justice.

The appellee, Virgil E. Hampton, plaintiff in the court -below, brought this suit against appellant, National -Casualty ■ Company, defendant, to recover disability and hospitalization benefits, penalty, interest, and attorney’s fee alleged to 'be -due him under a health and accident policy issued by the defendant company. The primary question raised in the suit was to the effect that plaintiff’s sickness was contracted and begun prior to the effective date of the policy, in that he was not in sound health, within the terms of the policy, but was suffering from…