Clay v. Liberty Industrial Life Ins. Co.

WESTERFIELD, Judge.

This is a suit for $200, the face value of a policy of industrial life insurance. There was judgment below for $100 and defendant has appealed.

A number of defenses were presented' below, one of which, based upon a provision in the policy sued on to the effect that, if the insured died within one year of the date of the policy, the coverage would be limited to one-half of its face value, was conceded to be good and recognized as such by the trial court in its judgment. The other defenses, with the exception of two which we shall discuss, were apparently abandoned. One of the…