Belue v. United Commercial Travelers

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

The plaintiff claimed to be a beneficiary under a benefit certificate issued by the defendant to her husband, J. T. Belue, on January 2, 1914, indemnifying him in the sum of $6,300.00 against death as the result of external violence and accidental means, and that the said J. T. Belue died under such circumstances on April 20, 1917. In September, 1917, she brought suit upon the certificate in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina, and recovered judgment for the full amount claimed,…