Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. Young

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by Hattye Maurine Young,, widow of S. A. Young, deceased, on a policy of life insurance in the face amount of $1500 issued by the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company as a joint policy on the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Young.

In her original petition, filed January 12, 1937, the plaintiff alleged the issuance, execution and delivery to herself and husband of the policy sued upon; that her husband, S. A. Young, died an accidental death January 12, 1935, a few days short of one year after the issuance of the policy. She further alleged that at the time of her…