Randle v. Continental Casualty Co.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

READY, Chief Judge.

In this diversity action, Henrietta Randle, a citizen of Bolivar County, Mississippi, plaintiff, sues Continental Casualty Company, an Illinois corporation, defendant, as the wife and beneficiary of Monroe Randle, in a $100,000 accidental death policy issued to Monroe Randle under a group plan as an employee of Baxter Laboratories. The case is in this court on removal from the Circuit Court of Bolivar County, Mississippi. Continental has denied liability asserting affirmatively that the insured did not die accidentally but as the result of suicide or…