Deatrick's Administrator v. State Life Insurance
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Frederick county in an action under the statute for proceeding on insurance policies. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Parvin E. Deatrick, of Martinsburg, W. Va., took out a policy of insurance upon his life in the State Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Some time after taking-out this policy he died in the city of Martinsburg, W. Va., on January 27, 1905. His estate was committed to J. William Taylor, sergeant of the city of Winchester, Virginia, who brought suit upon the policy of insurance and filed his declaration to the second February rules, 1906. To the same rules the defendant appeared and filed three pleas in abatement, to the first of…
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