Silliman v. International Life Ins.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GILES Appeal from the Chancery Court of Giles County.' —Walter S. Bearden, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buchanan
The case turns on the construction of the words “not in good faith” as used in the first section of chapter 141, Acts of 1901, page 248. The Insurance Company has appealed from a decree awarding against it a recovery for a certain sum as a penalty denounced by the act, and insists that under the evidence, which is free from material dispute, and under á correct construction of the Act, and particularly the words above quoted, that the decree is erroneous.
We think the point is well made. The words “not in good faith” are antithetical in meaning to the words “in good faith.” The words “not in…
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