Moruzzi v. Federal Life & Casualty Co.

ZINN, Justice.

This suit was brought in the district court of Colfax county by Santa Moruzzi, appellee here, plaintiff below, widow of John Battista Moruzzi, deceased, to recover death benefits under a policy of accident insurance. By its answer, the Federal Life & Casualty Company, defendant below, appellant here, admitted the existence of the policy, but denied most of the remaining material allegations of the complaint and set up as an affirmative defense a release executed by the insured after the injury but prior to his death. By her reply, ■ the appellee admitted the facts set up in the…