Pressley v. Industrial Life & Health Ins.

(concurring) :

As stated in the main opinion, respondent is an illiterate negro woman, who is unable to read or write. The testimony for respondent discloses that appellant’s agent came to the home of respondent on January 24, 1936, for the specific purpose of paying to respondent such sum of money as she was entitled to receive as beneficiary under the terms and provisions of certain policies of insurance issued by appellant on the life of Clyde Parsons; that respondent had left said policies with an undertaker, and before coming to respondent’s home, appellant’s agent had procured from the…