Keeton v. National Union

This is a. suit by tbe widow and children of Cornelius Keeton upon what is termed a policy of insurance, (but which, defendant calls a bene*303fit certificate), for $2000 issued by defendant to Keeton on January 14,1892, payable on bis death to plaintiffs as the beneficiaries named therein. Plaintiffs claim the defendant is an old line insurance company.

The answer admitted that the defendant was in 1892, and ever since has been, an Ohio corporation, doing business in Missouri, and that it issued, in Missouri, to Cornelius Keeton the policy sued on, (calling it, however, a “certificate” and…