Guffey v. Continental Casualty Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The plaintiff brought this action to recover on an insurance policy for the death of her husband. Charles Walter Howard, a Rock Island special officer, boarded an incoming Rock Island passenger train as it approached Herington. The deceased lived at Herington at a place directly west of where such trains stopped for a Missouri Pacific crossing, and on the evening in question when this train stopped there the deceased picked up his suitcase and started to alight, when he was accosted by Howard who followed him and demanded the suitcase, which…