Boseman v. Connecticut General Life Insurance

Petitioner, a citizen and resident of Texas, brought this action against respondent, a Connecticut corporation, in a Texas court to recover $4,000 with interest and attorney’s fees. Respondent removed the case to the federal court for the eastern district of Texas.

The suit was to recover for permanent total disability under a policy of group insurance issued in Pennsylvania by respondent to the Gulf Oil Corporation. It covers employees of that corporation and its subsidiaries, of which the Gulf Refining Company is one. Petitioner, an employee of that company, by that policy was insured in…