Legal Security Life Insurance Co. v. Thomas

DIES, Chief Justice.

The parties will be referred to in this opinion as they were in the trial court.

Plaintiff’s husband, Paul Eugene Thomas, was run over accidentally by a pulpwood truck which resulted in his death. He was at that time putting out pulpwood for C. N. Bishop, admittedly as an independent contractor. Prior to the death of plaintiff’s husband, Mr. Bishop had purchased a “Franchise Accident Policy” with defendant which was in effect on the day of the accidental fatal injury to plaintiff’s husband. Subsequently, plaintiff brought suit as administratrix of the estate of her deceased…