Cochran v. National Life & Accident Ins.

This is a suit on a contract of industrial life and disability insurance, to recover its stipulated cash or surrender value of $9.35. The suit was dismissed in the circuit court, upon the finding of that court that the plaintiff had not made demand for the surrender value within the time prescribed by the contract. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s appeal in the nature of a writ of error.

Decision of the controversy turns upon the proper construction of the word “default,” as used in the contract with reference to the payment of weekly premiums ; whether the date of default was the date…