Springfield Life Insurance v. Slaughter

This appeal is an appeal from a judgment for $500, statutory penalty and attorney’s fee recovered by appellees against appellant in the circuit court of Phillips County upon a life insurance policy issued on June 27, 1931, to Sam Butler, in which appellees were the beneficiaries. When the testimony in the trial court had been concluded, appellant requested an instructed verdict in its favor, which the court refused, over its objection and exception.

Appellant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to peremptorily instruct a verdict for it, and requests a reversal of the judgment for…